Radha Soami Satsang Beas plays role in COVID-19 relief

Apr 17, 2020

Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Apr 17 (ANI): The Radha Soami Satsang Beas facility in Saharanpur has become a shelter house for hundreds of stranded migrant workers, who left for their homes during nationwide lockdown amid COVID-19 outbreak. On March 28-29, a large number of migrant workers reached Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The local administration made arrangement to send some 4,000 of them to their destinations, but over 900 of them remained stranded in the city. On Centre’s guidelines, local administration took initiative to provide them shelter and they were brought to Radha Soami Satsang Beas shelter house. The facility, which spreads in an area of 350 acres, has provided bed arrangements under huge sheds by maintaining social distancing. Radha Soami Satsang Beas in Saharanpur has a clean and modern community kitchen, which prepares hygiene and healthy food three times a day. The food is served to stranded migrant workers by maintaining social distancing. The community kitchen also prepares food packets for distribution to poor people in the city. Giant projector screens are also set up for the entertainment of migrant workers. Instructors have been hired to teach them daily yoga and other exercises, so that they remain mentally and physically fit during the pandemic. Radha Soami Satsang Beas is a spiritual organization based on the teaching of all religions. It is dedicated to a process of inner development under the guidance of a spiritual teacher.