Villages in Telangana adopt social distancing to the core

Nizamabad: While people in global city like Hyderabad have been behaving in irresponsible manner by violating the instructions pertaining to lockdown, people in some rural areas like Jukkal in Kamareddy district joined hands with administration and set an example by imposing self-quarantine by closing entry and exit points of the village and with full consent of the residents to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Similar gesture was shown in Pedaganjam of Chirala in Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh.

The village heads with the support of locals sealed the roads by constructing walls and in some places blocked by erecting permanent iron gates across the road.

Tree logs were also placed across the roads to ensure no outside vehicle enters their village in many areas of the Telangana border.

In Kamareddy district, local communities resolved not to allow outside people in their villages mainly in Jukkal and Madnur mandals close to Maharashtra and Karnataka which also registered growing number of virus cases every day.

In Jukkal mandal, Padampally, Nagalgav and Kathalavadi villages on Karnataka border and Peddagulla Tanda and Chandegav villages cut off relations by prohibiting the movement of people from surrounding habitations at Maharashtra border.

In some places, locals deployed panchayat workers as guards to monitor the people's movement and stop them to enter the village.

The local Police and Revenue officials extended support to the communities for adopting an innovate method to curb the movement of people between the villages.

Panchayat Sarpanches warned of registering criminal cases if any person found a travel history to other village during the lockdown period.

A team of officials were visiting the village regularly and conducting medical tests to the people who are suffering from fever and flu, Nagalgav Revenue Inspector Venkatesh said.

Several villages in Bikanur mandal of the Kamareddy district also stopped all transportation vehicles from carrying people to other places, officials said that required essential commodities were made available on a daily basis in every villages which snapped relations with the neighbouring areas.