Even as migrant labourers belonging to Telugu states stuck up in various states are desperate to return to the home state due to the country-wide lockdown, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has come up with a strange proposal to bring Bihari workers to Telangana.
The unexpected catastrophe in the form of Coronavirus spread has crippled the economy of the country in a big way. Naturally, it has had a huge impact on the financial position of the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments as well.
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Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s statement that the state would become Coronavirus-free by April 7, if there are no fresh cases with symptoms of the disease has become a hot topic for discussion in the social media.
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Telangana on Sunday reported three new Covid-19 positive cases, taking the total to 70 while 11 of them will be discharged from hospitals after treatment on Monday.
Due to the coronavirus outbreak across the world, the entire country has been put on a lockdown for a time span of 21 days.
If the Telangana government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has its way, all the private medical colleges in the state would come under the control of the government and be converted into exclusive hospital for Coronavirus patients.
The Telangana government has decided to continue Annapurna Canteens for the poor in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits and also in several districts, in the wake of loss of livelihood to thousands of people on account of lockdown due to Coronavirus scare.
With 14 fresh Covid-19 cases in Telangana in just one day, the state government here on Saturday intensified anti-coronavirus measures. The state government declared several areas of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation as the 'red zones'.
Six persons were killed when a truck carrying labourers back to their villages in Karnataka was rammed by a lorry on Outer Ring Road on Hyderabad outskirts early Saturday.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday asked the authorities to see that there was no scope for any starvation in any section of the society on account of the lockdown imposed by the government to tackle Coronavirus.
The Telangana government said here on Thursday it had stopped issuing 'no objection certificates' (NOC) to people trying to leave the state.
A three-year-old is among two Covid-19 positive cases reported in Telangana on Wednesday, health officials said.
With no new COVID-19 positive patient being reported in Telangana, the total number of the coronavirus cases in the state stood at 39 at noon on Wednesday.
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), here on Tuesday, warned violators of lockdown norms of strict action and said said self-restraint on the public's part could help contain the coronavirus spread.
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There is no doubt that the police are doing a commendable job in implementing the lockdown orders issued by the Telangana government and controlling the unruly crowds that are coming on to the roads in large numbers breaking the orders.