Strict implementation of lockdown in erstwhile Warangal district
Warangal Urban district collector Rajeev Gandhi Hanumanthu and Warangal police commissioner Tarun Joshi visited several localities under the GWMC limits and directed the police personnel to strictly adhere to the SOPs while enforcing the lockdown.
Warangal: With the State government deciding to impose State-wide lockdown from 10 am to 6 am for 10 days from Wednesday to check the rapid spread of COVID-19, district officials took all steps to strictly enforce the orders in erstwhile Warangal district.
As part of this, Warangal Urban district collector Rajeev Gandhi Hanumanthu and Warangal police commissioner Tarun Joshi visited several localities under the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) limits and directed the police personnel, who were on bandobast duty, to strictly adhere to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) while enforcing the lockdown.
They said that persons going to hospitals for treatment and vaccination would be allowed on producing valid documents. Grocery shops, Liquor and vegetable outlets were kept open till 10 am to facilitate people make their purchases. There was nor much of a rush as expected in these shops since the people were anticipating a lockdown situation for the past several days.
Speaking to ‘Telangana Today,’ D Ramulu, an advocate and resident of Excise Colony in Hanamkonda, said he was expecting lockdown for several days now. “We had already procured groceries and other essentials that would be sufficient for one month for my family,” he said.
In Bhupalpally district headquarters, DSP A Sampath Rao accompanied by CI Vasudeva Rao inspected the bandobast to enforce the lockdown at Ambedkar Chowk in the town. He urged people not to venture out of houses unless there was an emergency.
Even in the remotest parts like Wazeedu and Venkatapuram mandal of Mulugu district, which are on fringe habitations in forests bordering Chhattisgarh State, the police asked the shopkeepers to close down their business by 10 am and cooperate with them in enforcing it to check the spread of the pandemic.
Mahabubabd SP Koti Reddy inspecting the documents at Mahabubabad on Wednesday
The police in Mahabubabad district are also strictly enforcing the lockdown. SP Nandyala Koti Reddy himself checked vehicles to find out why they were still out on the roads after 10 am. He has made it clear that the people who want to travel from one district to another district and from other states to Telangana must get e-pass from the police department.
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