Villagers block roads to stop Covid’s spread

Sarpanches take lead in sealing village borders for outsiders

Compared to urban areas, rural areas of Telangana state are strictly following the lockdown and social distance to control the spreading the deadly disease of coronavirus.

In several villages, the gram sarpanches and other people have blocked the borders of villages and are not allowing outsiders into the villages and also not allowing the village people to go outside.

Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s, announcements of a lockdown up to April 14, village heads have blocked the village borders. They are not allowing outsiders to enter their villages in view of the spread of coronavirus. They also not allowing the villagers to go outside except in emergency cases. They are not even allowing the relatives of villagers to enter into their village.

But in urban areas, people are violating the rules and coming onto the roads unnecessarily even they have no urgent work or emergency. The police are giving strict warnings to them not to come out from their homes and often have to resort to lathi charges.

In rural areas, the villagers are doing the police duty by not allowing to move in the villages. In Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Khammam and other districts, the people in the villages are following the rules of lockdown strictly. The coronavirus cases registered in Telangana state are mostly in urban areas.

In the maintaining of social distance also, rural areas are better than urban areas. In erstwhile Mahbubnagar district,

Amarachinta mandal, in several villages, gram sarpanches and local public representatives blocked the borders of their villages. The mandal chairperson, Mangamma, has directed to block all the routes entering into mandal headquarters.

In the villages of Pamireddypallle, Singampet, Nandimalla and Eerladenne, gram sarpanches have set up check posts to block new persons from entering their villages. In Nalgonda district, the youngest gram sarpanch in the state, Udutha Akhila Yadav, Madanapuram village, Chinthapalli mandal, blocked the village border and she herself stands at the border, not allowing any outsiders into the village.

In rural areas, the villagers are doing the police duty by not allowing to move in the villages.

But in urban areas, people are violating the rules and coming onto the roads unnecessarily even they have no urgent work or emergency.