UDAYPUR: Triyuga Municipality in Udapur district has initiated procedures to ensure that there is no food shortage in Bhulke with the decision to seal off the settlement for controlling the further spread of novel coronavirus.
The local government has taken the responsibility of supplying daily essentials to Bhulke in Triyuga municipality-3.
According to Mayor Baladev Chaudhary, it will be assigning the Triyuga municipality-3 ward chair to make initiation for reopening one shop in the village and supply daily essentials such as cooking gas, rice, edible oil, pulse, salt and soap from there.
Bhulke is home to 355 households including 55 of Muslims. Bhulke was sealed off after the detection of multiple cases of COVID-19 at once.
Now it has been known as the ‘new epicenter’ of COVID-19 in the country.
Similarly, the local government has made arrangements for a purchase and sale of milk produced by local farmers at the local level.
The move follows the growing public complaint that locally produced milk was going to waste due to the halt in supply.
The unsold stock will be purchased by the local government. According to mayor Chaudhary, a rice mill is being made to open in the settlement and locals will be made to maintain social distancing rules while taking the service.
On Friday, a free health camp was held in Bhulke. So far in Udaypur, the district in State 1, a total of 513 throat swab samples, out of 530, have tested negative for the virus, said District Public Health Office chief Mohan Subedi.
Presently, 216 persons are in quarantine in the district.
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