Narendra Bhushan, CEO of Greater Noida Authority, is establishing a personal connect with people in need to tide over the COVID-19 crisis. By Santosh Pathak
Narendra Bhushan, CEO of Greater Noida Authority, is taking utmost care of the citizens of the district and connecting with them amid lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Bhushan, a 1992-batch IAS officer and senior official in Gautam Budh Nagar district, has been in-charge of managing coordination among different departments. His recent efforts helped a man visit his father for his last time, which might not have been possible otherwise.
Ashish, teacher at Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jammu, informed Bhushan, who is also administrative nodal officer of Delhi, Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh, about his father’s died in Lakhimpur Kheri. Bhushan then spoke to J&K Principal Secretary and asked him to arrange passes for Ashish. During his journey, Ashish was constantly in touch with the Police Commissioner’s control centre set up in the Greater Noida office for UP residents.
Previously, Bhushan also urged citizens and Corona warriors to help identify senior citizens in their localities, who live alone, so that they can keep in touch with authority officials in case of any emergencies. For those, who are not able to arrange food for themselves, the responsibility of arranging their food have been entrusted with the concerned RWA or donor.
Bhushan has also helped established National Institute of Biological (NIB), Noida, laboratory under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, for testing and screening of suspected Coronavirus patients in Greater Noida. The lab has been equipped with modern technology for the residents of the district as well as the districts falling under Meerut and Saharanpur divisions. The testing lab is proving to be helpful in the investigation of suspected Coronavirus patients.
Moreover, three community kitchens and food collection centres are being run by the Greater Noida Authority in its East and West areas each. According to the data, a total of 6,99,828 food packets have been delivered to the needy. The authority has also prepared 100 teams to take care of sanitation and cleanliness.