States ordered to seal borders, ensure no people movement on highways
By MYBRANDBOOK
In order to curb the people movement on highways amid coronavirus outbreak, the Centre ordered the State governments and Union Territory administrations to seal State and district borders to stop the movement of migrant workers, who will be put in 14-days quarantine at destinations for violating the lockdown. Only movement of goods should be allowed.
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla asked chief secretaries and DGPs, via a video conference, to ensure that there is no movement of people across cities or on highways.
There has been movement of migrant workers in some parts of the country. Directions were issued that district and state borders should be effectively sealed.
“Landlords must not ask migrant workers for one month’s rent in case they have not moved out nor ask them to not vacate the premises,” said Punya Salila Srivastava, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs.
Even as the order to curb movement came, the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists asked Chief Secretaries of States and UTs to issue advisories for smooth transportation of medicines from CFA/Depot/Distributor to wholesalers and then to retailers. It urged them to mandate transporters to resume operations to move essential goods, especially medicines.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has stated that all National Skill training Institutes and hostels are available for conversion into quarantine or isolation facilities.
The Ministry has said that it has trained 92,040 health workers, 989 emergency medical technicians, 373 radiology technicians and 1,644 home health aid workers who can assist in emergency and isolation work.
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