City’s international athlete’s family stands in queue for food packets
   Date :09-May-2020

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Principal Correspondent :
 
THE coronavirus pandemic, which has forced a countrywide lockdown, is making life miserable for one and all. Those well off are somehow managing with their daily bread but there are a few who are finding it difficult to make ends meet. City’s international athlete Jyoti Chavan’s family is in dire straits. With all the savings spent, the family is now dependent on the food packets being distributed by the NGOs and others, it has been learnt. Jyoti, who has won several medals at district, divisional, state and national level, and her family of four, are now dependent on daily food packets.
 
MLA Sameer Meghe has started distributing food packets at Isasani, Bheem Nagar, Panchasheel Nagar since last few days and Jyoti’s family members are daily standing in queue to get their bread. The fear of embarrassment has forced Jyoti to send her mother or sister to stand in the long queue to get food packets. Resident of Panchasheel Nagar in Isasani, a locality some 14 kms in the outskirts of the city, Chavans have managed to make ends meet through their small savings. Jyoti’s father Jangbahadur is a mechanic while mother Sushila is a homemaker.
 
With the lockdown imposed since March, Jangbahadur’s income has dried up. There is no work and he is sitting at home since past one month. Jyoti, who had last year participated in World University Games in Italy and trains at Centre for Excellence in Bhopal, too, is jobless. She had helped her family with the reward money she had won during the World University Games. But that too has now evaporated. Despite bringing laurels to district, state and the country, Jyoti is yet to find a decent job through sports quota. She has applied for job with Indian Railways, Income Tax Department, CISF, to name a few but all in vain. 
 
NMC offers help NAGPUR Municipal Corporation (NMC) has offered to help Jyoti Chavan’s family. NMC Sports Officer Piyush Ambulkar said that the civic body has contacted Jyoti and will be providing all assistance to her family. He also appealed all other needy sportspersons to contact the civic officials.