A Hyderabad couple takes over a closed restaurant to dish out meals to 2,000 migrants every day

• Telangana currently has 334 active cases (as of April 6) of Coronavirus.
  
• While the lockdown highlighted the harsh living conditions, there were also some heros who did their bit to help them.
  
• The story of this Hyderabad couple, Subhadra Rani and Srinivas is one of them.
  

A software engineer couple in Hyderabad could have used the lockdown time to spend time with themselves, in the otherwise bustling city. But, they saw that their city had a few unexpected visitors - migrant labourers who were left stranded.

With no savings,no food, these wagers had no work to support themselves either as the lockdown had already come into place by then. Subhadra Rani and Srinivas are one of the few from the large-hearted city, to offer what they needed the most - hope.

They started small. Rani started donating home-cokked food to a handful of people. Then she realised that there were many mouths to feed as a huge crowd of laborers gathered outside her house while she and her husband were distributing cooked food, reported Dainik Bhaskar.

After failing to produce large quantities from their ‘home kitchen’, they insisted that their neighbourhood restaurant open its kitchen to them. As they started cooking on a regular basis, a few relatives and friends too joined in to help fight hunger.

And today, all of them cook food for at least 2,000 people daily. They have been sourcing material for these meals from their savings, making them one of the few heroes of the lockdown.

After lockdown, Hyderabad saw a stream of people walking towards it, from the 150 km of radius. As construction activity closed, many people have been left jobless with little to go on. Yesterday, the state government announced that the lockdown might be extended as there had been a spurt in the number of Covid-19 cases.

Telangana currently has 334 active cases of Coronavirus. Of these, 172 people had participated in the Tablighi Jamaat event that was held in Delhi from March 13 to 15.

See also: Coronavirus cases in Telangana