How road maintenance and construction works could continue to generate local employment adopting social distancing requirements to minimize COVID-19 virus infection risks in Nepal.
To contain the spread of the Coronavirus, a virus that causes Covid-19, within the community, Nepal government promulgated a nationwide lockdown on March 24 after the second case of Covid-19 was confirmed on March 23. Except to seek medical supply or purchase essential foodstuff, this blanket lockdown prohibited all types of public movements. Along with other industries, the construction sector is also hit hard by government’s this decision; most of the construction activities are halted. The government’s stay-at-home order, workers’ confidence to return to the site, and the ban on transportation became the major impediments for construction works.
However, this halted movement of transportation has also become an opportunity for road maintenance and rehabilitation. Especially in the urban area where the road maintenance used to be very problematic due to high traffic, it is now very easy to maintain roads. The Metropolitan of Kathmandu has used this opportunity to expedite the rehabilitation and maintenance work within the city adopting the safety measures.
As we see the government is extending lockdown regularly, and construction contracts are already behind the schedule, the construction works should be continued discussing the various measures that can be implemented to preclude the risk of virus spread. Also, we can generate local employment in the community. Since a lot of workers coming home from different countries are skilled and are now jobless, giving employment to these workers in the construction works, especially in road maintenance and construction works in the rural area, will generate local employment and will also help the government to cope with the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic.
Since we are talking about continuing the construction works amid the global pandemic, it is very important to adopt different safety measures against virus infection. As suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO), the most effective measures to contain the spread of the virus are washing hands with soap regularly and maintaining the social distancing among individuals. So, the provision of sufficient handwashing facilities and alcohol-based hand sanitizer for all workers and social distancing should be made mandatory in the construction site. Also, we should adopt measures like regular sanitization of construction tools as well as commonly touched surfaces(for example hoist, door handles, site trailer), avoiding the sharing of hand tools and sanitizing them if necessary, provision of the sufficient number of toilet/bathroom facility for all workers, provision of an isolation ward on each construction if any one of the workers gets sick, etc.
Adopting the above-mentioned measures, we can continue road maintenance and construction works to generate local employment without spreading the virus and minimizing the risk of COVID-19.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, second, so, well, for example, talking about, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 41.998997996 150% => OK
Nominalization: 34.0 8.3376753507 408% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2469.0 1615.20841683 153% => OK
No of words: 435.0 315.596192385 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.67586206897 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.27322257042 2.80592935109 117% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 176.041082164 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533333333333 0.561755894193 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 758.7 506.74238477 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 85.9103925934 49.4020404114 174% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.6 106.682146367 154% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 20.7667163134 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 7.06120827912 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.342583359984 0.244688304435 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11801244331 0.084324248473 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118287700735 0.0667982634062 177% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225712922972 0.151304729494 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.157040465052 0.056905535591 276% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.8 13.0946893788 151% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 50.2224549098 67% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.3001002004 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.26 12.4159519038 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.65 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 78.4519038076 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.33 Out of 6
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