A ‘defunct’ tractor pressed into battle against the virus
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May 15, 2021 12:34 IST
Having restored the vehicle, the Perumbakkam Village Panchayat is using it to carry out disinfection exercises
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Saint Thomas Mount Panchayat Union and Perumbakkam Village Panchayat take up a disinfectant drive at Perumbakkam housing board. Photo: Ravindran R
Having restored the vehicle, the Perumbakkam Village Panchayat is using it to carry out disinfection exercises
At one end of the panchayat office premises in Perumbakkam on Medavakkam-Perumbakkam Main Road, a defunct Mahindra tractor had been lying idle for over a decade.
Mangled steel chairs and broken wooden tables added to the picture of squalor.
Vaccination drive at Perumbakkam village panchayat picks up momentum
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Additional camps have come up on the premises of a PHC and housing board
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Additional camps have come up on the premises of a PHC and housing board
Recently, St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union and Perumbakkam Village Panchayat conducted a one-day vaccination camp for people aged 45 and above.
Around 300 people were vaccinated at the camp that was held at Perumbakkam Village Panchayat office on Medavakkam High Road.
N. Murugan, secretary, Perumbakkam Village Panchayat, says, “Before the camps began, we conducted extensive awareness campaigns through autorickshaws, informing public of the time and venue for vaccination.