While social distancing has been a key mantra to curb the menace of COVID-19, a deviation of the advisory was noticed in Baleswar when hundreds of job aspirants for temporary emergency health services gathered for verification of their documents.
A huge rush was seen although the aspirants were repeatedly asked to be in queues and maintain social distancing.
Seeing the condition, parents of some aspirants too expressed their displeasure. Finally, city DSP Manoj Rout, Traffic Nodal Officer Umesh Chandra Panda, the IIC of Town PS and others had a tough time in bringing the situation to order.
The health authorities had published an advertisement for recruitment of paramedics and health workers who would work till June 30 to meet eventualities pertaining to corona outbreak. The health workers would get Rs 850 per day, radiologists and lab technicians Rs 1,000 each.
To protect the needy, mainly the wage earners and the people in distress, while several volunteers are working by providing dry as well as cooked foods in several pockets across the district, former MP RK Jena has provided dry food to railway porters.
The sudden stalling of rail services has severely affected the life and livelihood of the porters and to protect their families, rations were distributed among them, said Jena.