Even as people are panic-buying LPG cylinders during the lockdown, the services of the delivery personnel, who are risking their lives to ensure undisturbed supply, go unacknowledged.
About 500 cooking gas distributors from three oil companies cater to the LPG demand of Bengalureans. Each of them employs about 10 to 25 delivery boys. With the coronavirus scare in the air, some of the agencies have provided their delivery personnel with masks, gloves and sanitisers.
But with the closure of small eateries and canteens, many delivery boys do not have access to food.
Harish C N of Jana Bharat Gas Agency in Uttarahalli said of the 22 delivery boys, only 16 were working. “These are people whose role has not been acknowledged by the citizens or the government, even though they work in providing essential services,” he said.
