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AP Government constitutes High Level Task Force to help NRTs
The AP government constituted a High Level Task Force (HLTF) to effectively coordinate and monitor students and people coming from abroad to the State, in the wake of COVID-19.
Amaravati: The AP government constituted a High-Level Task Force (HLTF) to effectively coordinate and monitor students and people coming from abroad to the State, in the wake of COVID-19.
Praveen Prakash, Principal Secretary (Political), in General, Administration Department issued the orders on Thursday through a GO RT No 584, where he constituted the HLTF.
The members of the HLTF include Dy. CM, Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas, Minister for industries Mekapati Goutham Reddy, Government Advisor (Public Affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy and Government Advisor (NRT Affairs) Medapati S Venkat.
As many institutions including schools, colleges, universities are being closed in other countries affected by COVID-19, and the students and others have been returning from the countries to Andhra Pradesh, the government initiated a series of measures to help them.
The State government appointed the officials as Handholding Officers. In addition, the government also set up control rooms for facilitating the students.
The government of AP set up two control rooms, one each in Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. P Ravi Shankar will be available at 98719 99055 and Devender at 98719 99059 at Andhra Bhavan in New Delhi. Md Karimullah Shaik at 89711 70179 and D Mohan Kumar at 82972 59070 at AP NRT Cell at Andhra Pradesh Secretariat at Amaravati.
J Venkata Murali, deputy secretary, coordination, General Administration Department (GAD) at AP secretariat will be the overall coordinator for the two control rooms. He will coordinate between the control rooms and district administration and will transfer information between them on real-time. The government also ordered to appoint hand-holding officers at Andhra Bhavan in New Delhi, who will be in touch with the students and persons desired to return to the State from various countries.
Whenever information is received regarding an individual or a group, the members of control rooms will report to AP Bhavan and the officials of the office will meet the concerned officer in Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Civil Aviation and the respective Embassy. The concerned officer of AP Bhavan will apprise V Vijaya Sai Reddy, Special Representative of AP in New Delhi and YSRCP MP. Vijaya Sai Reddy will meet the Minister of External Affairs in person or depute an MP to discuss the issue.
