mangaluru the success of a newspaper depends on its distributors they reach out to every reader on time the initiative of vijay karnataka kannada daily regarding their health is laudable said vishwanath shetty teerthahalli vicepresident rotary club mangaluru southhe was addressing the inaugural event to distribute ayushman bharat yojana health card and eshramik card to newspaper distributors here on saturday it was organised by vijay karnataka in association with the dakshina kannada district labour department district health and family welfare department karnataka one and rotary club despite any difficulty harsh weather or other situations newspaper distributors distribute newspapers on time he saidduring the pandemic newspaper distributors were considered as covid warriors said mary fredrick dias senior superintendent of labour department dakshina kannada earlier the labour department was implementing policies however of late it is taking the initiative to reach various schemes to their beneficiaries currently eshramik card is being used for data collection and in the coming days it will be used for disbursing various facilities to beneficiaries she said