Maharashtra: Janata curfew in Chanda from Wednesday

CHANDRAPUR: Chandrapur will go into two separate phases of Janata curfew starting from Wednesday.
The first phase will be from April 21 to 25 while the second will start from April 28 to May 1. The curfew has been imposed following agreement between all the trader unions, the administration and peoples’ representatives in the light of rising Covid cases in the district.
All the establishments, including essential commodities like grocery shops, fruits and vegetable shops and all the commercial and business establishment, will remain closed. Essential services like hospitals, pharmacies, agricultural outlets, government offices, banks and industrial units will however remain functional.
Delivery of milk, newspapers, LPG gas, petrol pumps and home delivery from hotels have been excluded from the curfew. Meanwhile, guardian minister Vijay Wadettiwar claimed that the administration is readying oxygen-generation plants at the tehsil headquarters of Bramhapuri, Chimur, Raur and Mul.
The civil hospital has 240 beds for Covid treatment. It will get an additional 350. The administration will complete the procedure of making 120 additional beds operational on Tuesday. A corpus of Rs 1 crore from Wadettiwar’s MLA development fund for a 100 oxygen bed facility at Bramhapuri has been allocated. Further finacial aid is expected for a 50-bed Covid treatment facility at Sindewahi.
MP Dhanorkar suggested usage of Corporate Social Responsibility funds for undertaking Covid measures. The administration has built a 20 KL capacity oxygen-generation unit at the women’s hospital and a 13 KL capacity oxygen tank has been installed at the civil hospital in city and process to make them operational is under way.