The YSR Congress party government in Andhra Pradesh led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday took an important and a welcome decision to prevent large scale influx of people and migrant labourers from neighbouring states into AP.
Jagan, who held a review meeting with senior officials at Amaravati ordered that all the marriage halls and hotels closer to the inter-state borders be converted into quarantine centres, where the migrant labourers and others coming from the neighbouring states would be kept for 14 days.
The chief minister categorically declared that it was not possible to allow migrant labourers and other people belonging to AP coming from the neighbouring states without ensuring that they were all of free of Coronavirus infection.
He instructed that all the marriage halls and hotels in the inter-state borders be brought under the control of the state government and converted into quarantine centres, after being sanitised thoroughly.
“The migrant labourers and other people coming from the neighbouring states be kept their under 14-day quarantine,” he said.
A resident officer would be appointed at every inter-state border to take care of the facilities for the people in the quarantine centres.
“A senior IAS officer would be entrusted with the responsibility to look after the welfare of migrant labourers,” the chief minister said.
He suggested that the people belonging to AP stranded in the neighbouring states should stay put in their existing places.
“We shall extend all possible help to them from the government. But if they want to come to AP, they should be prepared to be quarantined,” he said.
