Judges in Warangal turn saviour for old and destitute during lockdown

HYDERABAD: Warangal district court has emerged as a saviour of old and destitute during the ongoing lockdown in the district.
Its district legal services authority (DLSA) with all its network and command at its disposal could ensure supply of rice, groceries, milk and medicines to as many 13 child care institutions and 11 old age homes for the next 30 days.
K Jaya Kumar, incharge Principal district judge and secretary GV Mahesh Nath of Warangal’s DLSA implemented in letter and spirit the directive given by their state judicial authorities and had ensured that even medical camps at old age homes were organised without any interruption. The supplies of essential drugs for BP and sugar ailments were arranged for the old patients.
More moving was the story of Mother Theresa’s Home in Warangal that was looking after elderly women who are also mentally ill. There are 75 such old women in that home that need rice and milk regularly. Though this home was getting the supplies from its sister concerns at Vijayawada and Secunderabad, the same were stalled following lockdown.
Jaya Kumar spoke to a dairy at Mutkunur which agreed to supply milk daily to the home. The DJ and Mahesh spoke to various NGOs and government authorities and ensured that rice, groceries were sufficiently supplied to the home. The services of psychiatrists too were restored to the home. Elsewhere in the district the efforts of DLSA also resulted in successful conduct of blood camps in association with Red Cross society.
In fact Warangal was one of the first districts that sent out signals of conflicts from migrant labour who were on their way on foot to their native places. Jaya Kumar spoke to them, pacified their anger and made them see reason in staying back in shelters provided to them at shelter homes. The district judge ensured supply of good food through Akshaya Patra NGO and took good care of the angry migrants.
Both Jaya Kumar and Mahesh told TOI that they derived their strength to serve the poor from the call they received from Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and state legal services executive chairman Justice M S Ramachandra Rao and their state secretary GV Subrahmanyam who asked them to take up service activities in a massive manner during the ongoing lockdown period.