Through the first week of January the minimum temperature across Delhi-NCR stayed below 2°C. Police personnel remain on duty 24×7 through exactly that cold, in roadside chowkis that hold the weather rather than keep it out.
On Monday, Pahal Welfare Foundation distributed electronic equipment — heaters and blowers — at police chowkis across the Gautam Buddha Nagar area.
Foundation president D.K. Singh said the cold gripping Delhi and NCR at that time made protection from it essential. He added that the foundation distributes thousands of blankets among those in need every year to give them relief from the severe cold, and that this year too the organisation had been distributing blankets continuously since December.
D.K. Singh, Anil Pratap Singh and Hemen Singh were among those present at the programme.
Volunteers, women, social workers and a large number of children planted around 1,100 saplings at seven locations across Bulandshahr and Gautam Buddha Nagar — mango, neem, peepal, banyan, arjun and jamun. The children pledged to adopt the saplings they planted.
Around 1,000 saplings were planted at 12 locations across the district, part of a drive spanning Aligarh, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar — with school children planting alongside our volunteers.
From 20 to 23 July 2025 at Salempur on the national highway in Bulandshahr, thousands of devotees were hosted with rest, food and a doctors' team through the Sawan kavad yatra.
