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The section of Health, Medical Education, and Family Welfare has issued directions to each District Collectors successful Andhra Pradesh to signifier a Joint Action Committee (JAC) with officials from 9 departments to behaviour inspections and outline measures that the authorities tin instrumentality to forestall students from falling sick successful acquisition institutes and payment hostels.
The orders were issued pursuing the suggestions made by the Task Force committee, formed by the State authorities successful December, to fortify measures to forestall infectious diseases. According to a property enactment from the department, Health and Family Welfare Commissioner G. Veerapandian, who heads the Task Force committee comprising 24 members, issued the orders to the Collectors connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026).
According to the order, the JAC volition beryllium formed with territory officials from the departments of health, nutrient safety, Panchayat, municipal, Animal Husbandry, agriculture, BC/SC/ST welfare, Rural Water Supply, and education.
The JAC has been tasked with the work of conducting regular and astonishment inspections astatine each authorities acquisition institutions and hostels according to a fixed schedule. They should besides analyse the conditions of the hostels, toilets, drainage system, overhead tanks and surroundings.
They should find retired if the hostels are being inspected by aesculapian officers, if basal medicines are available, if determination person been immoderate outbreaks of diarrhoea, if anaemic students are receiving medicines and help, if immoderate measures are being taken to cheque mosquito breeding and rat infestation and forestall snakes and dogs from entering the premises, if nutrient is being stored decently and if cleanliness is being maintained successful the kitchen.
The Commissioner said that the Joint Action Committees should besides analyse the prime of h2o utilized for cleaning vegetables and for cooking purposes.
According to the property note, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is peculiar astir maintaining hygiene successful authorities schools and hostels. Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav besides emphasised that the responsibilities of the JAC bash not extremity with inspections, and submitting reports, but that these should beryllium followed with action. Everyone should enactment successful coordination to bring astir changes to guarantee the wellness of students, Mr. Satya Kumar Yadav said.
