A different start to a month for people of Calcutta

A man hands a food packet to a woman in the Babughat area on Friday afternoon. The man is part of a group from Kidderpore that distributed food packets to over 500 people during the day in the Hastings, Prinsep Ghat, Red Road, Babughat and SSKM Hospital areas

Pictures by Sanat Kumar Sinha and Gautam Bose

RPF personnel distribute food among people in the Sealdah station area around noon on Friday. The men in uniform distribute food in the area twice daily, at noon and around 7pm

Calcutta Municipal Corporation employees queue up to draw their salaries from a bank opposite the civic headquarters on SN Banerjee Road

People follow social distancing while queueing up to enter a bank on Bhupen Bose Avenue, near Shyambazar, on Friday

Pensioners and others maintain social distancing as they wait inside Tollygunge head post office on Friday morning.

A different start to a month for people of Calcutta

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