Chennai Corporation to pay Rs 500 a day to volunteers

Chennai, June 21 (HS)Chennai Corporation will be appointing 6720 volunteers to keep an eye on the houses that are quarantined and people living in close contact with Corona virus.

The need for 6720 volunteers a day to monitor 67,200 houses belonging to COVID-patients or those living in close contact has been worked out considering there will be at least three houses which will be in close contact with the house of a positive patient.

Sanctioning a sum of Rs 40.32 crore based on one volunteer for 10 houses in Chennai, the commissioner of revenue administration has stated that each volunteer will be paid an honorarium Rs 500 per day for four months to monitor the houses under state disaster response funds. This comes as Commissioner of Greater Chennai corporation has requested the Chief Secretary to appoint volunteers (on payment basis) in the ration of one volunteer for 10 houses to monitor home quarantined people and home treated positive patients and also to take care of their basic needs by arranging essential services at their doorstep.