Together all of us can fight the pandemic out of the district, DC Jalli assures the media

May 15: Deputy Commissioner, Cachar, Keerthi Jalli held an interactive session with media persons at her office premises on Friday. At the outset, the new Deputy Commissioner thanked the media fraternity and sought cooperation from them. She requested the media fraternity to convey their experiences and suggestions for better governance.

While some journalists asked the Deputy Commissioner regarding the action plan of the administration in dealing with the COVID-19 scare and highlighted the issues like hike in the prices of essential commodities and fish in the markets. Questions were raised from the media fraternity on how will the administration deal with the flow of passengers reaching home in Cachar district from outside states via trains. Also, some journalists raised observations regarding violation of social distancing and not wearing masks, shutting down of the Jarailtala LPG bottling plant, status of SLRM centre, issue of migrant labourers and even on imparting education to students via digital platforms etc.

Responding to the queries, Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli outrightly said that the priority of the district administration is to protect the district from from the clutches of COVID-19 pandemic and so all-out efforts are being made. She requested media persons to disseminate the message to the people that there is no reason to panic, if and when people who belong to Cachar come back home. All arrangements have been made to keep the district safe and those entering Cachar would be examined properly. If anyone is found to exhibit symptoms of COVID-19, those persons would be separated and sent treatment at Silchar Medical College COVID-19 ward, while others who would test asymptomatic would be taken to the quarantine centres and kept under absolute security arrangements so that no one can come out for any reason whatsoever.

Jalli requested the society to help and co-operate with the administration in catering to the needs of the people who are also a part of the society in which all are living . Those who would be sent home after their results come out to be negative, would be kept under strict home quarantine. Their houses will also be labelled as containment homes and ASHA workers would  visit such homes for monitoring their health status. The District Administration shall see that they get all essential commodities and food during the containment period. She informed the media persons that recently 47 persons who had been kept on quarantine were released after their results came out to be negative and asymptomatic.

The Deputy Commissioner noted down all queries made by the journalists and assured them that with a little more time, all the wobbling areas would be settled and streamlined. She urged the media persons to co-operate and said that together all of us can fight the pandemic out from the district and eventually from the country. Additional Deputy Commissioner Sumit Sattavan and Media expert NHM, Suman Choudhury also attended the press briefing held by Deputy Commissioner Cachar.