Entire municipal workforce to be vaccinated in Telangana

Even contractual workforce to be vaccinated, says DMA

Director of Municipal Administration (DMA) N. Satyanarayana on Friday has informed that the entire municipal workforce across the 141 urban local bodies (ULBs) in Telangana would be vaccinated within the next three days starting from Saturday by Telugu New Year ‘Ugadi’. After participating in a video-conference with the municipal commissioners in the presence of Municipal Administration Secretary Arvind Kumar, he informed that while there were 29,522 staff on the rolls, about 10,930 of them had either already received the first vaccination dose or in some cases both the doses. The target is to vaccinate 18,935 municipal personnel with the available vaccine in the respective municipalities. “We will make use of the available vaccination facilities in the towns mostly. Wherever the number of personnel to be vaccinated will be more than 100, we will have special rooms with proper medicare and drinking water facilities for the post-vaccination observation,” he said.