LUCKNOW, April 14 -- Regular health checkups for workers, water sprinkling on roads, provision of shaded areas in parks and workplaces, and ensuring shelters and medical care for animals, will be in place to save people from heat stroke, the chief minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials on Sunday.

"Special attention is being paid to protecting outdoor labourers from exhaustion, dehydration, and heat stroke. Health checkup camps will be set up at industrial and construction sites across the state," said a press statement issued by state government on Sunday.

"No negligence will be tolerated in operating shelters, maintaining drinking water supply, and running public awareness programs," CM Yogi told the officials.

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