RWAs to take over management of containment zones in Gurugram

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, June 20

Resident Welfare Associations in the city will now take over management of containment zones from the city’s municipal corporation, officials said.

RWAs have previously voiced their opposition to the way containment zones are being managed. In particular, they were unhappy with the inadequate restrictions on mobility and the santisation problems in containment zones, sources said.  

RWAs will now take over regulating entry and exit in 98 containment zones containment zones. They will also be responsible for sticking up posters to mark people under home quarantine in the city and keeping a watch on those in home isolation to ensure quarantine rules are being strictly followed.

An already understaffed and strained Gurugram Municipal Corporation appears to have been only too happy to oblige RWAs—according to a new arrangement drawn up with RWA, the civic body will appoint one official to oversee RWA’s containment management, officials said.   

In fact, RWAs different various residential societies in both old and new parts of the city have already begun earmarking isolation centres and are now collating data of all coronavirus cases in their own areas.

“The administration should have let us help earlier as we can help fight Covid better,” Dinesh Vashisth, president of Sector 5 RWA, said.

“We welcome any effort for a better coordinated COVID battle. The RWAs have offered to chip in and such community effort will go long way,” said Vinay Pratap Singh, MCG commissioner.

Gurugram’s coronavirus cases continue to rise steadily. A report by Haryana health department shows that, as things stood until Saturday morning, Gurugram accounted for over 42 per cent of Haryana’s 9,852 cases—the highest in the state.

The district also accounts for 55 of the state’s 144 deaths.