Maharashtra to hold ‘COVID-free Village’ competition to combat virus.
After 5 small villages within the state independently attained Covid-free standing in May, the Maharashtra authorities has now provide you with a singular proposal to encourage extra such rural settlements to “chase away the virus”.
Rural Development Minister Hasan Mushrif on Wednesday introduced a Covid-Free Village Competition with fats money prizes to be applied throughout the state quickly.
“If the villages become free from the coronavirus, then the talukas, districts, regions, and the entire state will be rid of the scourge as soon as possible, with the participation of the common people,” he stated.
The competition comes shut on the heels of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray final week lavishing praises on villages that had just about “barred the gates” on the coronavirus by taking strict initiatives on the native stage and setting a nationwide instance.
The villages embody: Hivare Bazaar the place the initiative was impressed by Padma Shri awardee Popatrao Pawar, and Bhoyare Khurd (each in Ahmednagar district), Bhosi in Nanded which earned the Centre’s laurels, and Antroli and Ghatane villages, each in Solapur district.
Incidentally, 21-year-old educated youth head the 2 villages – Komal Karpe, a botanist, is the Sarpanch of Antroli and lawyer Ruturaj Deshmukh of Ghatane.
Both shot to in a single day fame after their efforts to make their respective villages Corona-free earned a point out from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Thackeray simply final week.
The competition shall be held in all of the six income divisions of the state with prime three prizes for every division- Rs 50 lakh, Rs 25 lakh, and Rs 15 lakh- to the villages popping out with flying colors in controlling the Covid-19 contagion, now compounded by the black fungus menace that’s rearing its head within the state.
“We shall be giving away a total of 18 first, second, and third prizes in each division and the amount would be Rs 5.40 crore. This amount will be spent by the winner villages for carrying out various development and other works in their vicinity,” Mushrif stated.
Additionally, these successful villages which carry out effectively in making their areas Covid-free shall even be entitled to further funds of Rs 50 lakh, Rs 25 lakh, and Rs 15 lakh every, as incentives and the cash could be used for precedence improvement tasks.
Mushrif stated that villages shall be judged on the idea of twenty-two totally different standards by a particular committee of specialists, the small print of which can be introduced shortly and appealed to all villages to take part within the competition to make their areas ‘Covid-free’.
Here he recalled the contribution of former Deputy Chief Minister, the late R. R. Patil of Sangli who launched the “Sant Gadge Baba Clean Village Mission” in 2010, impressed by Mahatma Gandhi.
On October 2, 2014, PM Modi himself picked up a brush to launch the ‘Swachha Bharat Mission’ nationwide which was devoted to Gandhiji.
Mushrif stated that Patil’s SGBCVM had created a sense of dedication and envy among the many villages which vied with one another to undertake cleanliness as a lifestyle, and he hoped the identical could be achieved with the upcoming ‘Covid-free Village Competition’ within the state because the state grapples with the deadlier second wave of coronavirus.
Till date, Maharashtra has recorded 57,61,015 Covid instances and 96,198 fatalities – each highest within the nation – apart from 230,681 energetic instances, and the scourge is now affecting the agricultural areas greater than the city centres, as per official information.
