Local conditions likely to guide next phase of lockdown: Shivraj Chouhan

Poor people and those running small-scale industry are suffering due to extended lockdown, he said

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said that local circumstances are likely to dictate the next phase of lockdown as he spoke of the sufferings of the poor and pitched for kickstarting economic activities outside places where the spread of coronavirus infection is high.

Speaking to reporters through a video conference, he also called for coordination among states to ensure that migrant workers are provided transport to reach their homes so that tragedies like the road accident in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday morning that killed 24 of them are avoided.

Huge numbers of migrant workers have been walking hundredQs