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HYDERABAD: Applying for an e-pass from the Telangana police department for travel is getting increasingly difficult for many. The police are also rejecting several e-pass applications citing lack of supporting documents. This concern is not just prevalent in the rural areas, but also in the city, where people are finding it hard to even log into the website, as it is down more often than not. Officials managing the portal said that the website was slowing down due to heavy traffic, and claimed that this issue would be rectified soon.
Tollywood actor Nikhil Siddhartha was one of the many people who could not apply for the e-pass as the “server was down”. He was stopped by the police while he was on his way to deliver medicines to a patient at KIMS Hospital. Despite showing them the medicines and the prescription, the police did not let him go through.
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HYDERABAD: Amid the exponential rise in number of Covid-19 casualties and a shortage of space to perform their final rites, 55-year-old Basa Jijia Bai has come forward to conduct the funeral of those who lost their battle with the scourge. She runs a graveyard at Kavadiguda in Secunderabad that her family inherited from her ancestors.
“With the rise in number of Covid-19 deaths and families struggling to find space to bury or cremate their loved ones, I have decided to perform the last rites of people who died of the infection. This is no less than a service to God,” she says. The graveyard land was given to her ancestors by the Nizams before Independence. She is also the first woman in her family to take up this job.
Hyderabad RPO asks citizens to sign up for a Covid-free future
When the pandemic brought the country to a standstill, Balaiah drew several cartoons on Covid-19, and penned a song, which went viral on social media platforms.
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Balaiah’s signature scroll creating awareness on Covid-19 displayed at the Regional Passport Office in Secunderabad. (Photo | S Senbagapandiyan, EPS)
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HYDERABAD: A Regional Passport Officer (RPO) by profession and a cartoonist by passion, Dasari Balaiah is on a mission to spread awareness on Covid-19. Inspired by the Jan Andolan for Covid-19 Appropriate Behaviour Pledge launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Balaiah has designed a scroll to educate citizens on the need to remain vigilant about coronavirus. The scroll was designed when he was working as the Joint Commissioner of GST in Odisha.