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How Jagan’s village volunteers helped map virus clusters in AP

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HYDERABAD : When Andhra Pradesh chief minster Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy proposed to launch a village volunteer system last year, it drew a lot of flak from Opposition parties, which claimed that only those associated with the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) would benefit from the move.

The volunteer system has now come in handy for the state government, which has been conducting large-scale surveys to identify and map covid-19 clusters and track nearly 14,000 people across the state who had recently returned from abroad.

The village and ward volunteers were hired to coordinate and implement government welfare programmes in more than 11,000 villages of the state.

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