R. ARIVANANTHAM
CHENNAI, MARCH 29
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday instructed the district collector to ensure that the migrant workers from other states stranded due to the lockdown, get proper food and accommodation.
District collectors were ordered to take up alternate arrangements if there was any difficulty in the present accommodation offered to the migrant labourers, Chief Minister said in a statement.
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For workers who have already stepped out of their respective towns or if they were staying in railway stations in Tamil Nadu, Palaniswami told the Collectors to arrange temporary accommodation.
The funds for providing the accommodation may be utilised from the State Disaster Relief Fund, the statement said.
As the state government had already formed to monitor various measures taken by the official machinery, the statement said two exclusive additional committees headed by senior IAS officers would be formed to provide the necessary assistance for the welfare of the migrant workers and students from other states, it said.
The two committees would operate along with the existing nine special teams comprising senior IAS officials which were already constituted to contain the spread of coronavirus in the state, Palaniswami said.
Chief Minister said a crisis management committee led by a district collector would be formed. It would comprise leaders of chambers of commerce, executive directors of private hospitals, medical experts, NGOs to take precautionary measures on the spread of coronavirus.
The chief minister also said medical officers were asked to lay special focus on 1.50 lakh pregnant women during the next two months, who were advised to call 102 and 104 for necessary assistance.
He said private hospitals should send details of those individuals who suffer from chronic breathing problem to health department.
Orders were also issued to collectors that social distancing was strictly followed in places like fish market, meat and vegetable shops, said the five page statement issued by DIPR.
