Mumbai: The Maharashtra Government on Wednesday introduced a ‘corona-free village’ contest in an endeavor to spice up the native administration in villages to provoke steps to curb the unfold of Covid-19.
As a part of the competition, three village panchayats in every of the six income divisions of the state might be given prizes for managing properly the Covid-19 pandemic.
The state authorities has arrange a committee to guage the taking part villages. Rs 50 lakh has been introduced as the primary prize whereas the second and third prize winners might be given Rs 25 lakh and Rs 15 lakh, respectively.
Informing about the identical, Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Hasan Mushrif mentioned this contest is part of the ‘My Village Corona Free’ initiative introduced lately by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, including the objective is to make talukas, districts and in the end all the state free from the Covid-19 an infection on the earliest.
Mushrif additional mentioned the profitable villages may even be given a further quantity equal to the prize cash as an encouragement by the state authorities.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra has reported 15,169 new coronavirus instances, 285 deaths and 29,270 recoveries within the final 24 hours. The restoration price within the state is 94.54 per cent. The new instances had been increased than 14,123 infections registered on Tuesday.
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The information additionally said that ss many as 29,270 sufferers had been discharged from hospitals through the day, pushing the variety of recovered instances to 54,60,589.
Mumbai metropolis alone reported 923 new instances and 31 deaths, taking its tally to 7,07,041 and the toll to 14,880. The wider Mumbai division, together with town and its satellite tv for pc cities, reported 2,616 infections and 50 deaths, pushing the caseload to fifteen,37,397 and the toll to 27,965.
