Published 06:06 IST, April 5th 2020

Coronavirus: DMs in UP directed to personally inspect, monitor control rooms

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed all district magistrates to personally inspect coronavirus control rooms in their respective areas and monitor them

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed all district magistrates to personally inspect coronavirus control rooms in ir respective areas and monitor m, Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Kumar Awasthi said on Saturday. 

CM has also instructed that re should be issue in distribution of salary or horaria in private schools and hospitals during crisis period and every staffer should be paid, Awathi told newspersons in Luckw.  Awasthi said 8,287 FIRs have been registered so far under section 188 of IPC. With this, action has been taken against 26,844 people in state, he added.

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In addition, 9,88,223 vehicles have been checked by installing 5,301 barriers, Awasthi said. As of w, 15,280 vehicles have been seized and 2,00,470 vehicles fined, he said. additional chief secretary also informed that 127 FIRs have been registered against black marketing so far and action has been taken against 187 people. He said 10,430 prisoners have been released in state.

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An amount of Rs 1,000 each has been sent to accounts of 10,87,000 construction workers so far, while funds have also been given to 81,986 workers in urban area, official said. Thirty-one units were manufacturing personal protective equipment (PPE) and two more are going to be functional soon, he said.

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A total of 59 units are engd in making sanitiser and around seven more units are going to be functional soon, Awasthi said. Along with this, 410 units were making medical equipment and around 42 more will made functional, he added. He said 1,517 shelter homes have been built in state and 49,187 people were lodged in m. official said that chief minister would hold a meeting with all religious leaders in state through video-conferencing on Sunday. Awasthi added that 1,302 attendees of Tablighi Jamaat event have been identified so far and 1,000 of m quarantined. 

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(Im from PTI)

06:06 IST, April 5th 2020