Mangaluru: In the wake of Covid-19, the department of education has requested Rosario High School, Rosario English Medium and Ursula Kannada Medium to hand over to the district administration to accommodate people who are struggling due to the lockdown.
Accordingly, the correspondent has advised the heads of the school to hand over the keys to the concerned authorities.
Later, Tahsildar Guruprasad, Asst Commissioner Madan Mohan and members of the Covid-19 Task Force visited the school and made all the arrangements with the heads of the institutions and correspondent.
On May 13, nearly 400 migrants who are waiting to return to Bihar, Jharkhand and Gorakhpur, were accommodated in the Rosario Cultural Hall. Bishop of the Mangalore Diocese, Most Rev Dr Peter Paul Saldanha has expressed his full support for the cause and, in fact, even visited the venue and distributed bottles of drinking water to all of the migrants.
The Bishop expressed his willingness to accommodate more people in the schools in the days to come. The department is supplying food in packets.
Fr JB Crasta the parish priest, Fr Flavian Lobo the Assistant Parish Priest, along with a few lay people, are monitoring the situation along with the Asst Commissioner and Thaslidar of Mangaluru.
The whole Covid-19 Task Force is also taking interest in the hour of crisis in Mangaluru. The Tahsildar contacted the Bishop and expressed his satisfaction over the arrangements made at Rosario by the correspondent.
