UDD allows physical meetings in corporations and councils

Nagpur: With decrease in Covid-19 cases, the state’s urban development department (UDD) on Friday allowed physical meetings of all committees as well as the general body while following all guidelines of physical distancing and use of masks etc.
All municipal corporations, councils, nagar parishads and panchayats have been allowed to hold physical meetings, stated the notification issued by additional secretary Sachin Sastrabuddhe.
With the Covid-19 outbreak in March 2020, the state government had prohibited physical meetings in all local bodies including in Nagpur Municipal Corporation and made virtual meetings mandatory.
During the last 21 months of Covid-induced restrictions, the NMC in June 2020 had obtained permission to hold the general body meeting physically which went on for five days.
Later, the government continued with the restrictions on holding physical meetings.