Municipal Coroporations Stepping Up Preparadness Against COVID-19

Mumbai, Meerut and Kolkata Corporations are stepping up their fight agaonst COVID-19 by carrying out preventive activities and advertisements. 

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked all licenced hoarding owners in Mumbai to display messages till March 25, starting from Monday, on fighting the novel coronavirus outbreak. The directive was issued by BMC Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897. Those disobeying the directive will have their hoarding licences cancelled, the directive warned. Mumbai has around 1,200 licences.

The Meerut Municipal Corporation has installed water tankers, containing chlorine, in various areas of the city for the purpose of washing hands only.

While in Kolkata, state officials were provided hand sanitisers, outside the state secretariat, ahead of the administrative meeting to be chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee.