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Write the names of district collector of Bhilwara and write few lines about has contribution to control covid-19 in our district​

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Answered by debrajdebnath090
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Three days before the Modi government announced a nationwide lockdown on March 24, Rajendra Bhatt, the district collector of Bhilwara in Rajasthan was gearing up for a precarious situation. On March 21, he issued the first directions in the district closing down all industries, factories, brick kilns and other establishments in which more than 10 workers were employed. Bhatt hadn’t acted promptly though. The Rajasthan government had directed all district collectors on March 19 to impose Section 144 in their respective districts after a couple who had returned from Italy were found infected with Coronavirus in Jaipur. That was when the first case was reported in Bhilwara as well.

Despite the slow start, the following days would witness a containment strategy executed with clockwork precision, immaculate coordination and extreme efficiency under Bhatt’s watch - a strategy that would make Bhilwara the first district in the country to stop new infections within a span of less than two weeks. With a peak of 27 cases on March 31, the district hasn’t seen a new infection till date.

Industrial lockdown of textile hub

One of the first moves while medical interventions were being made was to get people off the streets. With many large industries involved in textile manufacturing, the order to shut down industries quite literally put the lid on all industrial activity and employment in Bhilwara. Realising the repercussions on the economy and law and order due to the ban on large industries, the district administration swung into action the very next day ordering the district industrial incharge to talk with all establishments urging them not to entrench workers and ensure a part of their wages were paid.

“I spoke to industry associations and contacted individual enterprises on phone asking them to retain their staff. We issued special passes to factory owners so that they could process wage payments to workers” said Vipul Jani, the industry incharge of Bhilwara. All public transport including state buses, autorickshaws, commercial carriages and taxis were banned. The same day, the administration asked all hotels to reserve atleast five rooms for use by district medical personnel. Resorts were asked to provide 20 rooms to district officials to meet impending medical emergencies.

By the evening of March 21, there was a sense of desperation seeping into the administration after the realisation that almost half of the 20 odd cases in Rajasthan were in Bhilwara. What further set the cat among the pigeons was that a doctor who had returned from Saudi Arabia tested positive along with five other medical staff who had worked in close proximity to him. The possibility of infections to patients who were handled by them at the local Brijesh Bangar Memorial Hospital where they worked was infinite. By the latter half of March 22, orders had been issued to local officials to draw route charts for every zone in the district and ensure essential supplies for households and fertiliser and other essential farm inputs for farmers. These were to be distributed in each of these zones according to plan.

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