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304 panchayats, councils with No Covid-19 at Assam

304 panchayats, councils with No Covid-19 at Assam
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GUWAHATI: Assam currently has 304 village panchayats and village councils, that are totally free of Covid-19, declared state panchayat and rural development (P&RD) Union, Ranjeet Kumar Dass, on Monday.
Although the disease is still a largely urban phenomenon, the virus gets penetrated deep to the far flung regions of this huge rural belt of this nation at the next wave.
“We now have reports that presently there are 304 GPs (gaon panchayats), VCDCs (village council growth committees) and VDCs (village development councils) that are Covid-19 completely free.
I’m hopeful that together with the active involvement and collaboration of everybody, we’ll have the ability to announce the whole rural belt of Assam Covid-free shortly,” Dass said in a news conference .
The country has a complete 2,197 GPs and also to curtail the spread of this pandemic at the rural pockets, so the P&RD division has put up spots at the GPs because nodal factors to fight the outbreak.
Aside from that, you’ll find 479 VCDCs and VDCs, that can be under the districts and also encounter the Sixth Schedule.
Districts, largely comprising the GP regions, have overshadowed the state capital Guwahati from the everyday count of favorable instances of late.
Although the health department asserts it has been in a position to include the fast spread of this virus from town that arrives beneath the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district, the everyday instances in Cachar, Nagaon, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia happen to be major issues.
“At Kokrajhar district that the greatest 57 VCDCs are Covid-free.
The war rooms are instrumental in tracking the Covid patients at the panchayat areas and limit their motion until healing.
These war chambers are taking inventory of their health status of patients at the GP regions with the aid of task forces which include panchayat agents, village defence celebration associates and g sevaks,” Dass said.
The war rooms are entrusted with the job of information direction of patients, that are availing dwelling isolation, systemic quarantine or hospitalization at every one of those GPs, both VCDCs and VDCs.
Sanitization actions in rural areas are undertaken under the assignment to restore the rural regions to normalcy in the oldest.
In the 15th fund commission, Dass explained, approximately Rs 23 crore was allocated to the job.
No cost masks have been dispersed to vulnerable categories, for example occupation card holders, poorer segments of the society, widows and marginal farmers.
This is viewed as a’jan andolan’ to combat the pandemic, in which ministers, MPs and MLAs also have joined in the call of their P&RD division, Dass stated.
“As a result of my fascination, three ministers, both MPs and 40 MLAs and four autonomous council members engaged in the events and flipped into the initiatives of this P&RD department to an authentic’jan andolan’,” he further added.

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