As State battles against deadly coronavirus pandemic, fake news infodemic on various social media is doing the rounds. The Ranchi district administration has now decided to crack whip against those spreading fake news.
The Ranchi police cyber cell in this connection has arrested few persons involved and in spreading fake news.
The Ranchi DC Rai Mahimapat Ray has appealed the people to be away from such information and avoid spread of any fake news.
The Ranchi district administration has asked state public relations officer Prabhat Ranjan and his team to remain alert on all such fake news.
The Ranchi district administration has issued some guidelines on how to detect fake news.
As per district administration directive, fake news carries bad spellings, punctuations and wrong logos. Government notices updates with spelling mistakes are probably fake.
Similarly, too many exclamations marks, excessive italics, fancy multiple fronts, colored texts, news not properly formatted or having too many mistakes mostly are fake news.
Also many fake news pieces use logos of government and international organisations to look authentic wrong colours, low resolution and stretched logos mean it is fake. As per district administration guidelines admin must stop check and verify the news before forwarding it.
The Ranchi district administration apart from issuing directives on fake news has taken several measures for ensuring lockdown successful. Door to door supply of foodgrains is being made. In Hindpiri area the hotspot of Coronavirus foodgrains has been supplied at around 8000 houses in Hindpiri area. For making the supply of foodgrains successful select officers have been deployed at Hindpiri area. The district administration has set up control room in Guru Nanak School where food packets are made for supply at Hindpiri area.
Meanwhile, Ranchi DC Rai Mahimapat Ray on Sunday visited Madhumati Apartment near Lake view Nursing Home for inspections after a retired DDC and resident of area died due Covid 19.
However the man died in hospital in Delhi.
Hindpiri is the only containment zone in the State capital as of now, officials said. At least 19 of the 20 COVID-19 cases reported in the city are from Hindpiri –a locality that runs adjacent to the Mahatma Gandhi Road, and connects Upper Bazar on one end and Pee Pee Compound on the other. By now, Ranchi has witnessed one Coronavirus death, and the victim was a 60-year-old resident of Hindpiri.