Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers' children: 20 PU students run medical camp at Delhi border

By Piyush Sarna | TNN CHANDIGARH: Round the clock at Delhi’s Tikri border, Panjab University’s 20 students run a medical camp for the farmers sitting on a protest against the Centre’s three agri-marketing laws. At night, the camp also provides the farmers with free shelter against the winter chill. Formed as Naujawan Kisan Sahayta Kendra, the group uses social media to crowdfund its initiative. In six days of the first appeal, they had collected about Rs 2 lakh. Harsimran of PU's Urdu department told TOI: “We all belong to farming families, so we will assist the farmers until the end of their protest. We work in two shifts of 10.” Some of these students have also reached the Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur borders to set up new camps. A closed factory behind their Tikri border camp shelters 100 people free of cost. Harsimran said: “The owner was kind enough to allow us to lay these beddings that we had carried from Chandigarh." The team includes two medical interns—Gagan Deol and Navreet Sekhon—from Government Multi-Specialty Hospital, Sector 16. Vishawjeet, a political science student of the University School of Open Learning (USOL), said: “We are available to the farmers round the clock. Our basic focus is on providing them with medical aid and shelter but we do give them food also. We hire large trucks from Chandigarh to get the material to the Delhi border.”

The Times of India

2021-01-04

Chandigarh