<span style="color: #222222;">Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy has announced that public transport will be operated only within the districts in the state from tomorrow till the end of this month.<br />''<br />''The inter-district service will be suspended, as part of the measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.<br />''<br />''<br />''He has also said, all families with ration cards in Madurai and its adjoining areas where the complete lockdown has come into force, will be given a thousand rupees each as a monetary relief.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the state has witnessed a record 2865, new Covid-19 cases leading to the total figure crossing the 67-thousand mark.<br />''<br />''AIR correspondent reports, the move to suspend the prevailing inter-district public bus transport follows the majority opinion of district collectors.<br />''<br />''The chief minister interacted with them today through video-conferencing. In the meeting, most of the collectors said tracing all the people who came in contact with a patient becomes difficult if he had travelled to many districts in the recent past.<br />''<br />''Currently, all the 38 districts in the state are classified into eight zones and travel within a zone has been permitted without securing the ePass.<br />''<br />''From tomorrow onwards, people should seek ePass for moving from one district to the other, till the end of this month, though travel within a district remains unrestricted.</span><br />