Sincere efforts on to bring back all stranded folks: CS
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 03 2020:
Chief Secretary, Dr J Suresh Babu has stated that the State Government is making elaborate arrangements to bring back stranded people despite many constraints besides enhancing testing capacity and other measures.
The Government has organised 22 trains to bring back all the stranded State natives from various parts of the country.
Unfortunately, due to incessant rains in Assam, the railway track between Lamding and Badarpur has been washed away forcing the train carrying State natives from Chennai to halt at Guwahati, said a statement issued by the Chief Secretary.
The returnees from Chennai were able to reach Jiribam last night on 44 buses from Assam hired by the State Government, it added while continuing that the returnees were again transported back to Imphal by the Trasnport Department.
The State Government has hired another 33 buses from Assam and sent 23 buses from Imphal to transport 1639 returnees from Mumbai who are supposed to reach Jiribam on June 4, the statement continued while highlighting that the 22,419 people have been brought back to the State so far by trains (3 trains each from Chennai and Hyderabad; 2 trains each from Mumbai, Gujarat and Delhi and one each from Punjab, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Pune, Kerala, Jaipur and Haryana) .
Testing capacity for COVID-19 in the State has been increased to 1,400 samples per day and laboratories and both JNIMS and RIMS have tested 11,643 samples so far, the statement said.
The State Government is running 17 institutional quarantine centres and 770 community quarantine centres, the statement said while appreciating the efforts of all public representatives, Government employees and local volunteers who are immensely contributing in running the said quarantine centres.
The State Government also praised the commitment shown by the Transport Council and other transport associations, their drivers and handymen in transporting the large number of stranded people.