Hyderabad: The Telangana Cabinet has decided to extend the lockdown in the State for another 10 days. The Cabinet also decided to give relaxation from 6 am to 5 PM during the lock down and give one-hour grace period till 6 PM for people to reach home. It was also decided to enforce strict lockdown from 6 PM to 6 AM and accordingly the Cabinet instructed the police.
Officials from the Medical and Health department on the instructions of the last State Cabinet have toured Satthupalli, Madhira, Nalgonda, Nagarjuna Sagar, Devarakonda, Munugode and Miryalaguda Assembly constituencies and recommended to the state Cabinet that Corona is not yet under control in these Assembly segments and wanted another 10 days extension of the lockdown with the existing curbs. Based on their recommendations, the Cabinet has decided to extend the lockdown with relaxation timings from 6 AM to 1 PM and another hour till 2 PM as grace period.
The Cabinet also decided to sanction 4,46,169 pending ration card applications. The Cabinet instructed the officials concerned to issue the ration cards within 15 days. (INN)