The KIIT and the KISS have taken awareness initiatives to check the spread of coronavirus.
As a part of the initiatives, 5,000 nonteaching staffs of KIIT and KISS have been given compulsory paid leave to be at their homes and conduct training and sensitisation programmes in their native blocks and panchayats. About 15,000 senior students of KISS have also been advised to create awareness among their tribal communities, villages, panchayats and blocks.
The KISS has offices in all districts of the State, each headed by a district coordinator. The district coordinators are proactively engaged in creating awareness on precautionary measures against COVID-19. They are sensitising people on hand washing and hygiene through door-to-door campaigns with a message “Say no to panic and yes to precautions”.
In a message KIIT & KISS founder and MP Dr Achyuta Samanta said, “Awareness should be spread far and wide at the grassroots levels and communities should be effectively prepared to tackle this deadly menace looming large upon us. Proper IEC campaign at the panchayat level through our staffs, supporting the initiative and advisory of the State and health entities will help us fight this battle. The spirit of solidarity must be at the centre of our efforts to defeat COVID-19. We will beat it”.