UV lights, Ozone machines: Monsoon Session amid Covid in Maharashtra

Inside both the Assembly and the Council, seating arrangement was changed to ensure social distancing with all alternate seats being marked ‘X’, indicating that it be kept vacant. (File)

From germicidal ultra violet lights inside the Vidhan Bhavan in Maharashtra to a special disinfectant coating that can keep objects sterilised for hours, the state legislature has put in place elaborate safety measures to shield legislators from Covid-19 as they converge for a two-day Monsoon Session from Monday.

As per the rules laid down by the Secretariat for the state’s first Assembly and Legislative Council sessions amid the pandemic, every…