Designated eating zones with folding tables and disposable spoons and plates. Bio-toilets that are cleaned at regular intervals. Diesel generators powering LED lights, floodlights, fans and mobile-charging units.

The area near Swasthya Bhavan, in Sector V, where the protesting junior doctors have been camping for three days is organised almost to a tee, thanks to help pouring in from near and far, often anonymously.

A set of prefabricated food kiosks, tents complete with folding tables and disposable spoons and dishes, came up at the site on Wednesday evening. The six contiguous tents also serve as the reception counter for food supplies, water and tarpaulin sheets that are reaching the site at regular intervals.

Meals cooked on the Salt Lake campus of Jadavpur University are being supplied for lunch and dinner at the protest site. A student volunteer of Jadavpur University, who was at the site on Wednesday night, said they had cooked six pots of rice, more than 350 eggs, daal and a mishmash of vegetables. Mini-trucks carried them to the protest site.

The precision with which things were put in place bore tell-tale signs of an organised effort.

A 56-year-old man who was coordinating the logistics refused to be identified. “The people of the entire state are behind this effort and we don’t want to be identified,” he said.

A routine sight at the venue is the arrival of delivery executives of online food and grocery aggregators. They are arriving with food, ORS packs, cakes and biscuits. The senders are, in most cases, anonymous.

On Thursday afternoon, a man with at least half a dozen food packets arrived at the site. He was overheard telling the sender over the phone that he would drop the packets at the protest site and ensure that the sender’s name was not divulged to the protesters.

Apart from this, many people from different parts of the city are bringing in cartons of bottled water, boxes of cakes, biscuits, ORS packets and fruits.

Moushumi Ghosh and daughter Swastika, who is pursuing a course in microbiology from Scottish Church College, came to the site with 250 water bottles and six cartons of cake. They drove from Parnasree, some 20km from the protest site. “I too have a daughter. We just cannot stand and watch,” said Ghosh.

Ritesh Basak, a Salt Lake resident who is a member of a WhatsApp group called Joint Platform of Demand for Justice, has been coordinating the distribution of water bottles and dry food items. “It is our duty to help them in whatever way we can,” said Basak.

Bio-toilets

A set of 26 bio-toilets has been set up at the site.

While six were set up initially, when the junior doctors started their sit-in, the rest came up in phases.

Unlike similar toilets at several fares across the city, the ones at the protest site are being cleaned regularly.

Workers can be seen sprinkling bleaching powder and sanitising the toilets every 30 minutes. Sources among junior doctors said the toilets have been funded by a Salt Lake-based individual.

Generators

Six diesel generator vans of various capacities are stationed at the site to power high-powered LED lights and floodlights, fans and mobile charging clusters.

More than eight petrol-powered generators have been placed on the pavements. They are powering lights, public address systems and portable sound boxes that are mounted on trucks.

“We arranged for the logistics of the generators and the lights. The payment was made by anonymous donors,” said Basak, the Salt Lake resident.