Around 750 blankets were distributed among the helpless, madrasa students, orphans and cold-hit people in the district on Saturday. Bangladesh Red Crescent Society district unit organised the distribution programme.
Narail deputy commissioner Muhammad Habibur Rahman handed over the blankets to the cold-hit people at Red Crescent Society district unit office premises this morning as the chief guest with chairman of district council who also chairman of Red Crescent Society district unit Advocate Shorab Hossain Biswas in the chair.
Narail municipal Mayor Anjuman Ara, Red Crescent Society district unit secretary Kazi Ismail Hossen Liton, heroic freedom fighter Saifur Rahman Hilu, secretary of district shilpakala academy Maloy Kumar Kundu, Municipal Panel Mayor Rezaul Biswas, among others, were present of the occasion.
On the eve of the distribution of winter clothes, the speakers said from a humanitarian point of view, all the well-to-do people should cooperate with the helpless people from their respective positions.