Central team gives a thumbs-up to TS

City Bureau   Hyderabad  27.04.2020

On the second day of its three-day visit to Hyderabad, the five-member Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) on Sunday expressed satisfaction over the measures taken by the State government to contain the coronavirus spread in the city.

Led by Additional Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Arun Baroka, the team, including senior Public Health Specialist Dr Chandrashekhar Gedam, NIN Director Dr R Hemalatha, Consumer Affairs Director SS Thakur and NIDM Associate Professor Shekhar Chaturvedi, visited the rythu bazar at Mehdipatnam and inspected the social distancing norms being followed there.

The team interacted with farmers at the bazar and enquired about the transportation of stocks to the market.

Yadaiah Yadav, a farmer from Moinabad, explained to the team as to how he was getting the vegetables, cultivated in his agriculture fields, on a two-wheeler and selling the same at the bazar. The team also checked the price chart on mobile rythu bazars.