With the number of Covid-19 positive cases coming down in Telangana gradually, the state government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is learnt to have given silent instructions to the district collectors to ease the lockdown restrictions in rural areas.
He reportedly told the collectors to assess the situation at the ground level and allow functioning of informal industries that will provide livelihood for the rural people such as brick kilns, stone crushing units, rural repair workshops, beedi making, textiles (read looms), ginning mills and plastic industries
The government instructed the collectors to take decisions in this regard only after ensuring strict adherence to other lockdown norms like social distancing and adequate sanitisation like providing hand wash for the workers.
Since a majority of Covid-19 positive cases were recorded in urban areas and since they too started declining, it was decided to allow select informal industries to function in order to allow those practicing traditional occupations earn their livelihood.
However, no exemptions were given to any of these industries located in urban areas including municipalities and municipal corporations.
Operation of these industries where lot of migrant workers are also involved will discourage them from making any attempt to return to their native States. It will also help us estimate the impact of lifting the lockdown to some extent.
