Question

Write a short story in about 200-250 words.

Nitish is living in a containment zone, he went outside and met with the CRPF

soldier……………………………………​

Answer 1

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Azad Nagar in Indore, Ramganj Bazar in Jaipur, Dharavi in Mumbai and Master Plan Road in Agra may be divided by geography, but they have one thing in common. All four neighbourhoods are Covid-19 containment zones, cut off from the rest of their cities, all residents confined indoors and no outsider allowed in.

Explanation:

Life wouldn’t have been easy for the residents of these neighbourhoods, which have been under what’s called a hard lockdown -- a state in which a particular area is completely sealed and residents have no freedom of movement -- after a significant number of cases surfaced within their municipal limits.

Everyday essentials are home-delivered so that residents don’t need to step out and the heavily barricaded localities are sanitised everyday. They have been isolated in the run-up to and after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a three-week nationwide lockdown that took effect on March 25, and has since been extended twice, until May 17.

It isn’t easy either for government officials deputed to these areas, classified as highly contagious, who have to spend most of the day visiting homes to trace the contact history of locals,ensure no one is breaching the quarantine, and gathering information about the health of residents that goes into the framing of national policies to combat Covid-19. There have been instances of abuse of officials, some of whom have even been spat at.