E Singhbhum DC orders for stricter enforcement of containment norms

JAMSHEDPUR: The East Singhbhum deputy commissioner, Ravi Shankar Shukla, on Thursday issued fresh instructions to officials manning the 20 containment zones in the district to ensure that lockdown norms are followed in the restricted areas.
This comes two days after a 29-year-old patient, who recovered from Covid-19, returned to his residence in Daigutu area (a containment zone) under Mango police station — after being discharged by Tata Main Hospital (TMH) on Tuesday night — in the midst of heightened celebrations by his family members who welcomed him home by bursting crackers.The security personnel posted near his house failed to stop the family even at the entry point and after his neighbours informed the police, the celebrations were stopped and the man was taken back to TMH. An FIR was lodged and subsequently four persons of the family, including the man’s father and brothers, were arrested and sent to jail for violating lockdown norms.
The DC said, “In the Daigutu incident, the municipal official on duty at the containment zone immediately informed the matter to the local police and the cops swung into action without wasting any time. In future, we have to be prepared for timely action so that there’s no violation of the lockdown measures in the containment zones.”
He added that people should realise that a pandemic is a sensitive issue and measures announced by the administration for its containment is in the interest of the common man.
Nand Kishore Lal — the additional district magistrate (law and order), who is also the nodal officer for district surveillance — said, “We need a review to see whether we need to add new measures at the containment zones or increase the strength of security personnel there.”
He added that the officials guarding the containment zones have been asked to make sure that night curfew is not violated by the people.
Meanwhile, TMH, which received a show-cause notice from the district administration on Wednesday for not informing them about the patient’s discharge, is yet to get a reply. “We haven’t received a reply yet but generally three days time is given for an answer in such cases,” civil surgeon Maheshwar Prasad said.