The Housing and Urban Development Department has written a letter to the Commissioners of municipal corporations, Executive Officers of municipalities and NACs for precautionary measures to combat spread coronavirus.
The department has directed the civic bodies to undertake the following measures immediately:
Temporary Quarantine centres, i.e., Kalyan Mandap, Community Centre, Cyclone Shelter, shelter for urban homeless or any other buildings of any department/agency (Private or Government) with electricity (sufficient lights and fans with power back up-DG sets) and continuous water supply facility should be kept ready for use when required. These buildings should get a facelift by way of colouring of the exterior and interior parts wherever required. It may be considered to engage facility management agencies for managing these centres when required.
Service provider agencies may also be immediately contacted to provide additional man power for managing the facilities.
The buildings should be properly sanitised for maintaining proper hygienic condition. Dedicated team should be deployed for proper maintenance, watch and ward, housekeeping, etc.
Specific teams should be formed on a cluster approach basis to oversee the sanitary condition and health status of their localities with proper reporting of the status daily.
The Ward Officer should act as Surveillance Officer for the entire area.
The Ward Officers should keep in touch with community for updating the current position relating to their ward for taking further action at different levels.
The Swachha Sathis engaged for the solid waste management purpose should be extensively engaged in collecting and reporting the information pertaining to presence of any foreigner or any inhabitant who visited foreign countries within last 15 days in their localities to the Commissioners or Executive Officers.
Focus should be given on environmental sanitation. The earlier instructions need to be scrupulously followed.
As instructed earlier, water jetting machines should be procured and made available within two days in all toilets and Aahaar centres.
Fogging and spray machines should be used regularly to sanitise the localities. The machines should be purchased in adequate numbers to meet the requirements. Even if the delivery time on placing purchase order is more, it is worthwhile to procure now for the present and future usage in sanitation activities.
All community toilets and public toilets should get facelifts. They need to be given colour coating and make sure that it gets running water supply and electricity, hand wash with soap facilities, etc.
All parks shall remain closed from 2 pm onwards every day.
The IEC campaigns should continue to generate ample awareness. Any misleading and false information spread through social media or any other mode should be immediately reported to the authorities.
The civic bodies are authorised to make necessary expenditures for all these activities out of the funds available under the FC grants/ State funds/own resources.
All kind of gatherings should be strictly prohibited.
Regular coordination should be made with district Collectors and Health Department officials to ensure proper adherence to the advisories.
