Take Help Of Ex-Servicemen To Deal With Covid: Rajnath Singh To Governors

Rajnath Singh enquired from the governors about various aspects of the coronavirus pandemic in their states and urged them to take the state administrations into confidence in the fight against the pandemic.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today spoke to almost all governors and conveyed to them to take services of the ex-servicemen in their respective states in dealing with the coronavirus crisis, people familiar with the development said. In his conversation, Mr Singh enquired from the governors about various aspects of the coronavirus pandemic in their states and urged them to take the state administrations into confidence in the fight against the pandemic, they said. The defence minister also spoke to Lt Governors of a number of union territories and took stock of the coronavirus situation. Mr Singh has been monitoring assistance by the three armed forces to the civil administrations across the country to fight the pandemic.