Credai Telangana gears up to tackle Covid-19

Hyderabad: The Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India (Credai) Telangana is taking measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak at the construction sites across the state.

As part of this, Credai-Telangana launched a program 'Credai Cares.' Credai Telangana has issued guidelines for the members in view of the prevailing Covid-19 crisis.

The guidelines outline the best practices for the construction sites, offices and owners' associations to safeguard the employees and communities in times of Covid-19 pandemic.

The real estate practices have become a tightrope to walk as realtors are trying to balance responsibilities with measures to protect employees, buyers and themselves.

G Ram Reddy, chairman, Credai Telangana, said: "Credai Telangana has implemented strict measures to ensure that all our members, employees, partners, stakeholders remain safe from Covid-19.

Construction sites, offices, apartment associations should be disinfected multiple times of a day. We have undertaken an extensive drive to educate all our employees on the seriousness of coronavirus, identifying infections, and measures to safeguard themselves from being infected.

We have already rolled-out precautionary measures to showcase their flats, which includes obtaining travel history declarations, and ramping up cleaning frequency inside the offices.

We have also issued advisories to the owners' associations and offices to safeguard themselves from Covid-19."