ROURKELA ADMINISTRATION HAS SANITIZED MAIN ROADS TO DISINFECT CORONA VIRUS
Rajesh Mohapatra,Odishabarta
ROURKELA: This furious, ‘corona’ is gradually spreading its wing day after day and the scenario has been changed than we had last week. Now the death toll of Odisha has gone up to 9. To stop the spread, operation has started to disinfect public roads and markets yesterday and the time has come to be extra cautious. Rourkela administration has taken various steps to keep people indoor during this Lockdown and police is becoming stricter on Lockdown violators than the past. Local administration has taken a beautiful step to sanitize roads of main market by spraying sanitizer through fire brigade vehicle in main market area. This operation for disinfection has started yesterday morning and covered most of the vulnerable area. The same exercise is going to be followed by Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) in near future as information comes. Lockdown in the city is almost successful leaving a few incidents where people are gathering without any reason and had been warned by the local police. Markets are remained opened from 6am to 11am and three hours in the evening. But medicines shops are remain opened for the whole day. Rate of vegetables are slightly higher than the price it was before 20 days. The price hike is on an average 10-25% and all essential commodities are available including non-veg items. Still there is a huge shortage of Mask and hand sanitizer in the market. Customers are roaming around shop to shop for the same but stock is not available. Social distancing is maintained everywhere in vending zone except a rush in the morning at vegetable-markets. All snacks and tea shops are closed with all transportation means. Overall, this lockdown is all successful in and periphery of Rourkela, like Birmitrapur, Bisra and Bonei.
