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The Good Food Project, is an Indian non-governmental organization, based in New Delhi. The organization was was launched during the Covid-19 pandemic in New Delhi, India; and aims to provide food, safety equipment and sanitation material to the workers of cemeteries and mortuaries. Good Food Project, is a volunteer run and crowd funded organization.

Overview
During the second wave of covid-19 in India's capital New Delhi, cases started rising from beginning of April 2021, since the start of the month there was a sharp in the number cases recorded, by 26th April, cases had peaked at 26,000 daily positive patients. Many hospitals were overwhelmed, with 2 patients on a single bed and patients being turned away from hospitals.

While doctors and nurses were considered frontline workers and their safety was prioritized by the Government, workers of crematoriums and mortuaries were largely ignored. A very high number of fatalities were recorded peaking at 448 deaths on 3rd May 2021, with a 7 day average of 398 deaths in New Delhi, overwhelming crematoriums and mortuaries in the city. Due to the rising number of deaths in New Delhi, workers of crematoriums were working almost around the clock with very little safety.

The Good Food project, was started by Shray Gupta and Nandini Gosh, during the peak of the covid-19 pandemic in India, to provide food to the laborers of crematoriums and mortuaries in New Delhi, the project has since evolved and now aims to provide sanitation material & safety equipment.

Crowd Funding
The Good Food Project used the crowd funding website Milap.org to raise funds and raised $20,000 in the first 48 hours. The group is still gathering funds to provide more facilities to crematorium and mortuary workers, which often come a low-caste and financially depressed households. Many are underpaid and some are not paid regularly, meaning in case of falling ill, worker cannot will not be able to take care of their health care needs with their pay.

Petition
A petition was filed to the Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Government of India & Health Minister of India, to grant the status of frontline workers to the workers of crematories and mortuaries, however the petition was closed after the Supreme Court of India granted frontline workers' status to workers of crematories and mortuaries during a suo moto case on the distribution essential supplies and services during the pandemic.

Overview
British Raj ended in the Indian Sub-Continent with the partition of India in 1947, Republic of Pakistan & Republic of India were created as a result of the partition. Karachi was chosen to be the capital of the new created republic, where it had been the capital of Sindh before. Most of the Muslim migrants coming from India after partition settled in Karachi, this resettlement of migrants reduced the native population of Sindh to less than 50% of the total population of their capital. Sindhi nationalist parties initially objected to the idea of choosing Karachi as the Federal Capital of Pakistan, due the considerable revenue Karachi provided to the government of Sindh, however, leaders of the Muslim League were more interested in the nominating Karachi as capital, instead of Lahore or Rawalpindi, due to the future political support of migrants from India because many Muslim Leaders were also migrants and had little political roots in the newly created country.

Notable People
G.M. Syed

Abdul Majid Sindhi