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Turn colleges in rehabilitation centres: VMC

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VIJAYAWADA: In a bid to provide shelter homes to the migrant workers, V Prasanna Venkatesh, Commissioner, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has directed the officials to turn various colleges in city into makeshift shelters and shift the remaining homeless migrant people there.

On April 2, he took a review meeting with officials of health department to discuss various pressing issues in city due to lockdown. The officials informed about the work of shifting 1,000 homeless migrants workers to nine shelter homes build at Vidyadharapuram, Hanuman Pet, Vehicle depot, Ranigarithota, CVR High School, PSM School, Vivekananda Charitable Trust and BC Welfare Hostels.

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