NEW DELHI: The Gujarat Government did not” consider sealing off Surat to stop plague from “spreading to other areas, Declaring this in a press conference held in the Capital on Friday, ‘Gujarat Chief Minister Chhabildas “Mehta said that the idea was “impractical,” and more than “50,000 ‘military personnel would have been required to do the job.” Mr. Mehta said that the situation in Gujarat was “hundred per cent controlled,” and no further death Shad been reported in the past 72 “hours. ~ Mehta ruled out the idea of recommending a postponement of the “Forthcoming elections in Gujarat in early 1995.
Asked about the adverse impact of plague on the economy of the “State, Mehta claimed that the “effect on the economy was marginal” and that people were returning by “the busloads.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 7, 1994
