SP Palamu Ajay Linda is visiting police stations taking stock of the situation and cops’ morale while his deputies are out visiting rural, semi urban and urban quarantine centres.
Linda said, “On Saturday I visited police stations located on NH 75 and 98 and asked the officials there to ensure that under no circumstances trucks/ lorries should line up on NH 75 and 98.”
The SP said, “I have asked my officials to ensure that letter of union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla wherein MHA has maintained that transportation of all goods without distinction of essential and non essential, have been allowed remains unhindered.”
He further said, “ If police find any truck/ lorry loaded with some such non essential which is of no consequence right now be checked but it must be maintained that fleet of such trucks/ lorries do not line up on NH or on any road but some far away in the open.”
Social distancing of drivers must not be compromised with reiterated Linda.
Linda said, “I have asked OCs to have spray of sodium hypochlorite on the surface, walls, windows, iron grills etc of the police stations besides personal hygiene like hand wash, sanitisers, masks etc.”
One of his deputies Vijay Kumar SDPO Hussainabad is out with fire brigade having diluted solution of sodium hypochlorite with which this officer and his team is ensuring spraying of this chemical on institutions like banks, shops, roads, flanks near eateries.
Another deputy Sandip Kumar Gupta of Sadar visited rural quarantine centres like Sua centre where are quarantined 2 labourers who have come from Lucknow and Simdega, 5 at Koreeya centre where have come labourers from Jaipur, 6 at Jamuney centre who have come from Maharashtra, Chhatisgarh and Varansi, MK DAV centre where are lodged 22 members of tablighi Jamaat and one person from Delhi, chiyanki centre has 20 persons in quarantine who have come from Sonebhadra.
Gupta said these quarantined people except the Jamaat persons are very local and as such these quarantined people are at ease here since they have a feeling that they are in the panchayat of their own villages which makes them emotionally stronger.
Sources said the Jamaat members too are of Palamu and many of them are of the town Daltonganj and its vicinity also and their main contention is that when they are declared having no symptom be shifted from institutional quarantine to their homes.