CORNONA VIRUS FEAR MAKE ROURKELAITES STAY HOME
Rajesh Mohapatra,Odishabarta
ROURKELA: Corona Virus fear has gripped the entire world into its grip so this happened in India also. But Indian Govt. has taken enough precautionary measures. Odisha Govt. has also come up with Lock down before many states thought of taking initiative.
This lockdown is now observing across the state and Rourkela in particular, following all guidelines given by the State Govt. The entire city market place and other social gathering areas have remained vacant since Sunday. Market is entirely closed excepting shops opened dealing with essential commodities (Medicines, Grocery, Vegetable vendors, Fruits vendors etc). People are instructed by the local administration to distance themselves from social gathering areas.
As per the recent guidelines, Bus and Railway communications have already stopped in the city. Passenger carriers, i.e. Auto, OLA and other commercial vehicles have stopped their movement to fight corona. Rourkela Municipality Corporations has taken enough steps to make people aware about Corona and its prevention. With this they have formed groups consisting of One officer on Special Duty, One Nodal Officer, 2 to 3 RMC employee to go in groups to different areas to give information about Corona and dos and don’ts. Since the main ingredients to prevent Corona is the Mask and Hand Sanitizer which is not adequately available in the city right now. Black marketers are taking advantage of this scarcity and selling Masks at Rs.40/- , Rs.20/- higher than the actual price. None is serious about it and people are buying things forcible at higher price to save their loved ones. It has been noticed, a huge gathering near Medicine and Grocery shops to stock the items in advance to avoid scarcity. ADM, Rourkela, Smt.Aboli Sunil Naravane is personally monitoring all activities initiated by the State Govt. to make it fruitful with SP,K Shiva Subramani. All credit goes to the Medical staff, police and RMC staffs that are on roads doing their duty with all sincerity without fearing for their lives. Moreover, people of Rourkela are cooperating with the administration to fight corona.
