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| Lt Governor calls for universal usage of masks in J&K | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 2: Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today called for universal usage of masks to contain the spread of coronavirus in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. He was chairing a high level meeting of Administrative Secretaries at Raj Bhavan to review the efforts of the Government for management, containment and prevention of COVID-19.Today’s meeting was latest in the series of regular assessment of efforts of various departments and evolving new strategies in wake of the emerging situation on ground.
Sh. BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Sh. Arun Kumar Mehta, Financial Commissioner, Finance Department; Sh. Atal Dulloo, Financial Commissioner Health and Medical Education; Sh. Bipul Pathak, Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor; besides Administrative Secretaries of various Departments participated in the deliberations. The meeting was informed that the health department has sufficient stock of protective equipments including masks for distribution among frontline workers and efforts are being made to scale up the production by involving Self Help Groups (SHGs) and private entrepreneurs locally. Further, it was decided that as a preventive measure, the Government shall facilitate the availability of masks for all the people in the UT.
The Lt Governor outlined that so far the UT has been able to control the spread of virus due to pro-active participation of people across J&K; however a sustained awareness campaign among the people across the UT is imperative to bring about a behavioral change in the society while breaking the chain of spread.
The Lt Governor directed for involving religious/social leaders, PRIs and Urban Local Bodies functionaries to facilitate awareness and encourage people to take ayurvedic immunity boosters for self care during the COVID-19 crisis.
The Lt Governor directed the Housing and Urban Development Department Chairs meeting with Administrative Secretaries to review COVID-19 control efforts
Stresses on broader community participation for generating awareness
With regard to disbursement of the relief package among beneficiaries, the Lt Governor directed for issuing all necessary instructions to the banks to ensure smooth disbursement of DBT amount, cash flow in ATMs and maintaining social distancing norms in all their premises. The Lt Governor called for effective mobilization of volunteers and preparing database of such people so that they may be provided basic health training before deploying them in COVID-19 mitigation measures.
The Lt Governor further, asked the officers to send a team of doctors for regular checkup of migrant labourers putting up in various camps. Besides, the Labour Department was directed to prepare database of all the labourers staying in the camps so that their movement after the lockdown restrictions be facilitated. He called upon the officers for putting in enthusiastic and synchronized efforts at all levels of the administration to ensure optimum utilization of resources while mitigating the threat of coronavirus in the UT. |
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