HYDERABAD: The Covid-19 pandemic has abandoned the postal division in 2 the Telugu countries –Telangana along with Andhra Pradesh–at a state of shock, together with over 100 departmental staff sentenced to the virus, although over 1,000 employees were changed.
Agree their field-level workers who manage tens of thousands of dak–for example letters, parcels, rate articles and cash disbursements into lakhs of beneficiariesand lost their lives from the pandemic, officials of the postal division are exercising roadmaps on security strategies to handle pandemic moving ahead.
“A total of 988 Covid instances are documented in Telangana, where postal employees regained in 643 cases along with the rest 345 are busy instances.
Until date, 12 departmental employees and the other 26 gramin dak sevaks (GDS) perished in the pandemic,” S Rajendra Kumar, Telangana primary article master general told TOI.
With respect to Andhra Pradesh, the amount of active cases and fatalities are a lot higher.
Andhra Pradesh leader PMG M Venkateswarlu stated,”A total of 1,210 Covid instances are reported, of that, 534 instances regained.
We’ve dropped 81 departmental employees and GDS workers” The main PMGs in both countries confessed that the passing rate and active instances in GDS workers is greater compared to departmental employees.
GDS operate in rural locations and have immediate interaction with overall individuals, while offering postal services like purchase of stamps and stationery, conveyance and delivery of trade, among other obligations, that inclued IPPB function from the Departmental Post Offices/RMS as well as cash disbursements.
“A SOP of all Covid-19 criteria have to be followed by each postal worker when discharging their responsibilities was hauled.
But absence of consciousness cost us several lives, and most were impacted,” said Rajendra Kumar.
Regardless of the next wave of this virus continued and lockdown being lengthy, the dak providers from the Telugu countries didn’t get paralysed.
“The section has offered sanitizers, facial masks and palm gloves to each of the field personnel providing the letters, rate post and parcels in the public’s doorsteps,” M Venkateswarlu stated.
Aside from such efforts, a large sanitization driveway has been consumed in and out of post office buildings to stop the spread of this virus, Rajendra Kumar added.
Meanwhile, the postal department officials also have conveyed reports to high ups of the division in Delhi about Covid deaths to rapidly seek aid for relatives of the deceased employees.
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