Union Ministers returning to work with necessary precautions
Despite a country-wide lockdown in India, marking a move to normalcy, Union Ministers and top officials returned to their offices yesterday. With necessary precautions due to COVID-19 outbreak, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who said she is back to work at her North Block office.
“Back to working in North Block office with a home-made mask this morning,” Sitharaman tweeted. She also tweeted a photo in which she was seen wearing a home-made mask.
Meanwhile, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar also held a meeting with officials of Information and Broadcasting Ministry at Shastri Bhawan while his cabinet colleague Jitendra Singh attended a meeting at North Block.
Both were seen wearing masks as a precautionary measure.
Kiren Rijiju, Youth Affairs and Sports Minister, also reached the Sports Authority of India and said that all guidelines regarding COVID-19 will be followed and only senior officials and minimum required staff will be coming to office.
“Only senior officials and minimum required staff will be coming to the office today onwards. We will follow all guidelines regarding COVID-19,” Rijiju told a news source.
Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who also attended a meeting with officials, said, “We started the work from today. We are maintaining social distancing norms and other precautions.”
Along with the ministers around one-third of the essential staff re-joined work in every ministry and department, with social distancing norms in place.
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