new delhi this pandemic has wreaked havoc in the lives of the poor in the city food has been their biggest struggle the lockdown has only worsened the situation by affecting their earnings on monday toi saw serpentine queues of those who did not have ration cards at delhi governments free grain distribution centresnot everyone returned happy from there because arranging wheat and rice for such big crowds is not easy and the days provisions ran out before their turn camerajwati 61 is diabetic but hunger drove her to the government boys senior secondary school in nand nagri in northeast delhi she joined the queue at 3am on monday but she sadly failed to get a token for the rations being distributed there i have come here for three days now she said disconsolatelywhen toi went inside the school to check why the distributors said there werent enough provisions for everyone and had to deny them tokens we have informed a few people that we have very little to give out but the queue has only been increasing what can we do said a teacher deployed there for distribution duties we had received 2800 kg of wheat and 700 kg of rice but those are finished the people outside are threatening to vandalise the premises if we dont give them rations at the end of the day we are just teachers and fear for our safetysheela devi 52 too was in the queue at the municipal corporation primary school in dilshad garden for three days the domestic worker has a family of eight to support her husband being bedridden and unable to work i have been waiting patiently but they always ask me to come again the following day she grumbled last year we exhausted our savings during the lockdown and had to beg the local ration shop owners to give us some food promising them we would pay later they have been after our lives but we havent been able to clear the duesseeing devis disappointment at being turned away a teacher explained the people dont realise that we only have so much of provisions per day they come and yell at us but we can only give rations to those holding tokens depending on the amount of wheat and rice the distributors give tokens to those in the queues the lucky ones being those at the top of the lineequally disappointed was munni devi 35 at south delhis nehru nagar munni and her 10yearold son first reached the distribution centre on saturday but returned empty handed after waiting from 11am to 4pm munni a domestic worker said the lockdown has severely affected my family of seven it is frustrating to wait so long in the hot sun and not take home some foodstuff i will try my luck on tuesdaya mother of five children munni did household work for five families but was asked by three not to come when the lockdown started her husband chavi ram a