Ranchi Municipal Commissioner Manoj Kumar has urged Ranchi Deputy Commissioner, Rai Mahimapat Ray and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Anish Gupta to provide security to the sanitation workers after receiving complaints of spitting by some anti-social elements on corporation employees who had gone for sanitization work at Nala Road in Hindpiri on Thursday.
Following the request of the city municipal commissioner, sweepers reached Hindpiri area on Friday for sanitization work and collection of door to door garbage. However, ward number 22 former councilor Mohammed Aslam and ward number 23 councilor Sajda Khatoon today denied the incident of spitting on sanitation and cleanness workers.
Sajda Khatoon has said that under a conspiracy some people are engaged in maligning the name Hindpiri area. Scavengers and sanitization workers have stopped working in Hindpiri area and to escape from work they plotted story that some people are spitting on them. The councilor demanded an inquiry in the entire episode.
Ward councilor Sajda Khatoon has also asked municipal commissioner to conduct an enquiry asking action against the people concerned if they found guilty. After this, the Sadar SDO assured them that the matter will be investigated by the police. Cops from concerned police station have been directed to visit the area along with the Municipal Enforcement Officer to inspect the place where the incident took place for through investigation.
Meanwhile, the Ranchi district administration has sealed Hindpiri locality for next 72 hours, after five new cases of coronavirus surfaced on Thursday. The 72 hours sealing started from 10 AM on Thursday. With five new cases the total number of Covid19 cases in capital has gone up to seven. Interestingly, out of seven cases, six are from same family, while the other case is of Malaysian woman the first case to have surfaced in Jharkhand.
As the Ranchi district administration has sealed the area all the essential services and commodities will be provided to the residents at their homes. The administration also announced to carry out patrolling so that people follow the lockdown seriously. Also there will be deployment of volunteers for home delivery of daily goods and other essential items. Officials claimed that contact tracing will be conducted and samples of the contacts are being taken to test for Covid 19.
The Ranchi district administration has so far registered 70 FIRs against persons for violating the lockdown imposed in wake of coronavirus. The Ranchi district administration has also urged people to wear masks at public places as masks and other preventive steps such as washing hands regularly with soaps and sanitizers can prevent the spread of disease.