SP urges Kakching farmers to follow Covid SOPs
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kakching, July 20 2021:
Movement of people in groups in/on vehicles to work in the paddy fields without maintaining SOPs or wearing face masks and working together add to the risk of spreading COVID-19, cautioned Kakching SP Victoria Yengkhom and appealed to people to stop going in groups or working together in the fields.
Though agriculture and allied activities are exempted from the purview of the total curfew imposed by the government to contain spread of COVID-19 since July 18, there is report of people going together on vehicles to work in the paddy fields and gathering near public ponds, Victoria said and expressed concern that such reckless congregations could further spread COVID-19.In this regard, Kakching district police will carry out awareness programmes at every locality from Wednesday onward, she said and appealed to people of the district to cooperate with the district police.
While informing that Kakching district police has been taking up stringent measures to enforce total curfew at important junctions and deploying adequate police, VDF, home guard and police commando personnel, she said that IRB personnel are assisting district police at Sora.
Due to support of the people, not much curfew violators are seen this time, she added.
Meanwhile, Pallel PS OC Matum Singh Heishnam, who is in charge of Pallel to Sora area along Imphal-Moreh road, said that police and security forces are getting support from the people and no one venture out of their homes at Sora unlike in past curfew.