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Group shares medical burden of poor
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A group of dedicated like-minded people in two villages in Dakshina Kannada has come together sponsoring a poor family each every month by paying ₹ 5,000 to meet their medical expenses.
Under the banner Kittura Chennamma Seva Samithi, it contributes ₹30 to ₹ 50 every week for the purpose. The fund collected is deposited in a bank account of the samithi. The members collectively identify a poor family in dire straits before handing over the money.
P. Dharanendra Kumar, a member of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, who is the brain behind the initiative, told