Bhubaneswar : In order to involve peer leaders of Socially Smart Project of Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) as Covid Sachetak, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) organised a two-day long training at Saheed Nagar Kalyan Mandap. The training was provided by officials of BMC and doctors.
These peer leaders will form a part of Covid Sachetak Committee and create awareness at community level on COVID-19. They will move from door to door and talk to people about social distancing, hand hygiene and aspects like symptoms of Covid etc. They will also work to identify people with probable symptoms of Covid and inform the ZCO and other officials for further support. Through the initiative BMC hopes to reach out to the people in slums to ensure that the virus spread is contained.
The project focuses on young people and has trained over 120 young boys and girls in 3 phases of life skill education. These youths work in close collaboration with different stakeholders to address issues and challenges of slum with focus on issues of young people. The project is currently being implemented at the level of 100 slums of the Temple City.
