The individual, who did not want to be named, said as he noticed uncoordinated relief efforts for flood-hit people moving to the area, he engaged his cooks, drivers and domestic helps to make a list of the victims and prepare food for them.

He collected a tent and set up a kitchen in it and several sanitary toilets beside the roads in the area.

The beneficiaries are poor people from the inundated slums in Badda, Shahadatpur and Taltala, now living on pavements in the posh Gulshan residential area. These people, mostly day labourers, have built makeshift shelters on the pavements.

The samaritan said he will supply the enlisted flood-victims one meal a day as long as they cannot return home.

If anyone else wants to supply food to the sufferers, he should do it in a coordinated way, he thought. "I don't mind if someone wants to use my kitchen to prepare food for them," he said.

He mentioned that some people come with rice, curry, hotch-potch and other food items and distribute them among the victims without asking anything.

Flood-affected people living on pavements of roads 112, 113 and 116 in Gulshan area were getting at least one meal a day. Rows of makeshift houses were seen in front of the residence of the deputy minister for Food and Disaster Management on Road 116.

"We have received no relief from the government but local residents are helping us," said Tamizuddin, who came from Shahadatpur slum with his three children and wife.

Large pans of rice, beef curry and lentil were seen on Road 113 at around 2-30 pm yesterday. Several hundred people, mostly women and children, lined up and collected food on the basis of coupons they got earlier.

At about the same time, some people with two vans full of 'biriani' packets arrived on the spot. Many flood victims, who had just collected food items, again rushed for 'biriani' packets.

"To stop this, anyone willing to feed the victims should consult local residents" the samaritan said.