officers say they haven't gotten any directions to line up these zones, despite the state's daily bulletin listing numerous areas.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 15:49
Bapu Nagar colony in Hyderabad’s SR Nagar is found simply behind the residence of NV Ramana, the recently sworn in jurist of Asian country. per the bigger Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), it's one among the sixty three localities wherever the civic body claims it's started small containment zones. However, a visit to the world showed a special reality as there was no demarcation or social control of any kind. Locals were conjointly unaware that the municipal corporation had shaped small containment zones in their areas, suggesting that it had been simply on paper.
The Telangana government began as well as small containment zone details in their daily bulletins on Gregorian calendar month twenty. The state had rumored forty two,853 active cases and 363 small containment zones thereon day. On Gregorian calendar month twenty one, as active cases touched forty six,488, the state same it had 495 small containment zones. However, on Gregorian calendar month twenty five, while active cases rose to sixty five,597, the amount of small containment zones declined to 282.
TNM drove around many of the localities listed as small containment zones by the GHMC in Hyderabad. At localities Veer Nagar, Prem Nagar (Redhills), Amar Nagar (Mangalhat), Bapu Nagar, Yellareddyguda (Somajiguda) and NBT Nagar (Banjara Hills), there was no proof of any small containment zones nor were there any kind of municipal oversight of COVID-19 protocols. Locals were unaware that GHMC had even shaped small containment zones in their localities.
Four retired senior voters with masks on their chins were gathered beneath the shade of a tree at the doorway to Bapu Nagar colony, “There aren't any containment zones here. There square measure some positive cases. we have a tendency to raise those families to remain home and that we do not attend them,” same Amar Singh Chowhan, a retired Union government worker. “GHMC sanitation groups do not even visit North American nation after we decision them to sanitise the world when a positive case gets detected,” he alleged.
Ajay Singh, another retired government worker complained that even once GHMC workers visited, they didn't sanitise the neck of the woods in an exceedingly correct manner. “They came with a machine spraying a chemical, however simply sprayed it on the most road. They did not even get in the lanes,” he said.
The sanitation drive was a part of the state government's response to rising COVID-19 cases within the second wave. A note was issued by the Municipal Administration and concrete Development (MAUD) to municipalities and companies, that set down directions to undertake garbage cleanup and cleansing exploitation disinfectant spray (1% whitener solution), to keep up public health. However, officers say that ejection the sanitation drive, there have been no directions on putting in place small containment zones.
“We don't have any directions to enforce small containment zones from the Health Department or from our higher-ups,” same Dr C Uma Gowri, Assistant medic of Health for Khairatabad zone. “At gift, we have a tendency to square measure solely doing sanitation work,” the official accessorial.
TNM reached intent on the Khairatabad Zonal Commissioner however the officer was untouchable for comment. the extra Commissioner of Health with the GHMC and officers with the Health Department were unresponsive. chatting with TNM, a GHMC official with the Solid Waste Management wing conjointly same that there have been no additional containment zones as so much as sanitation workers were involved.
In his Gregorian calendar month twenty address to the state over rising COVID-19 cases within the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had same, ”Lockdown are the expedient. we've to require steps to stop another imprisonment and specialize in small containment zones.” The Director of Public Health told The Asian countryn categorical that small contaminants zones were being started supported orders from the govt of India. alternative states too, claim to possess started small containment zones