Rural Telangana to get breather, as the state government has planned to ease out lockdown. Chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the District Collectors to ease out the lockdown and allow functioning of informal industries – brick kilns, stone crushing units, rural repair workshops, beedi making, textiles (read looms), ginning mills and plastic industries – to get back the livelihood of the rural public.
“The instructions were part of an attempt to ease out lockdown norms and bring normalcy in rural areas. As majority of COVID-19 positive cases were recorded in urban areas and since they too started declining, it was decided to allow select informal industries to function in order to allow those practicing traditional occupations earn their livelihood,” a district collector said.
However, the ease in lockdown is was ruled out for Urban areas as the COVID-19 cases were recorded were reported from here.
