A city based Non Government Organization (NGO), Shree Shyam Karuna Foundation, held a Bhandara or Community Kitchen at Panchkula. Shree Shyam Karuna Foundation's sevadar, Amitabh Rungta said that this was the NGO's 42nd Bhandara - at Industrial Area, Phase II, Panchkula. It is imperative to mention that the NGO holds a bhandara every week, in which hundreds of working class people and needy families from the surrounding areas have food.

Many volunteers associated with the NGO also actively participated with enthusiasm in the noble cause. Some of the prominent names who contributed to the distribution of food were Anupama Rungta, Chaitanya Rungta, Pragati Rungta, Deepali Rungta, Sukhpal Singh, Himanshu, Mohan and Nidhi.