Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar has directed the officials to coordinate with bankers to ensure that all bank employees, including outsourcing employees, are vaccinated by next week by conducting a special vaccination drive.
As per the directions of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar held a meeting with the representatives of various banks at BRKR Bhavan today on vaccination of bank employees.
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Chief Secretary informed the bankers that the government has formulated a multi-pronged strategy to vaccinate all persons by the end of October as per the directions of the Chief Minister. Priority has been given to vaccinating all high-exposure group members in the first phase.
The government is also pursuing the Government of India to procure vaccines for the state.
Principal Secretary Finance K Ramakrishna Rao, Principal Secretary MAUD Arvind Kumar, Principal Secretary Industries Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary Health and Family Welfare Rizvi, SLBC Convenor Krishna Sharma, Chairman APGVB Praveen Kumar, MD TSCOB N Muralidhar, and other officials participate.
SOURCE-NSS