Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Apr 30: Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister Kota Srinivas Poojary, said that a decision on allowing people who are compelled to stay put in other districts because of lockdown, to join their families by undertaking intra-district travel would be taken within a couple of days.
The minister was speaking after presiding over a meeting on precautionary measures relating to COVID 19 organized at the auditorium of the office of the deputy commissioner. He clarified that in the first phase, the government has permitted transportation of migrant workers to their native districts in order to undertake agricultural activities or to go to their places of work.
Kota Srinivas Poojary
He said that arrangements to send migrant workers to their districts have been made from all the taluk headquarters in Dakshina Kannada district. "The work of sending migrant workers to their homes has been completed in respect of all the taluks in the district except Mangaluru. About 4,000 have already left, and this process will be completed relating to Mangaluru city limits in three to four days," he stated.
Poojary said that in the second phase, preference will be given to people who stayed put in the district and could not join their families living in other districts. The issue is under the active consideration of the government, he added.
The deputy commissioner said that there is information about bringing back citizens from the district presently put up in foreign countries. She also said that it has been decided to cremate mortal remains of people who die of coronavirus infection at the electric crematorium at Boloor here.
Poojary said that the government will soon issue circular containing guidelines about how patients should be treated in clinics, hospitals and nursing homes and there is no need to nurse any doubts.
MP, Nalin Kumar Kateel, zilla panchayat president, Meenakshi Shantigodu, MLAs, Harish Poonja, U T Khader, Vedavyas Kamath, Angara, Dr Bharath Shetty and MLCs, Harish Kumar and Ivan D'Souza, along with district in-charge secretary, Ponnuraj, deputy commissioner, Sindhu B Rupesh and police commisisoner, Dr P S Harsha, were present.