The Samoohya Sannadha Sena or Community Volunteer Force was launched on January 1 to help with the disasters that Kerala was facing back to back in the recent past. So when COVID-19 broke out and CM Pinarayi Vijayan appealed for volunteer service the numbers grew in several lakhs. They set the headquarters at The State Nodal Agency for new and renewable energy, Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT), and ANERT director Amit Meena became the inaugural director of the voluntary force.
“Police volunteering began very recently. The CM has issued an appeal to let our members act as police and health volunteers depending on their inclination. We asked them and they responded well in huge numbers. There are nearly 4000 volunteers on an average working as police volunteers every day across the state. They had been given the work with the police, visiting people in home or institutional quarantine, to ensure they are following quarantine rules and so on,” Meena said.
Soumya and Sreekanth reach out to people in quarantine helping them with getting food and daily needs. Not only this but these volunteers help police on the check posts too, to ensure vehicles do not enter or leave the containment zones.
Thiruvananthapuram Commissioner of Police Balram Kumar Upadhyay says that it is great that young people are joining the fight against the pandemic.
Source: The News Minute