‘Accommodating all returnees at Dmu challenging’
‘Accommodating all returnees at Dmu challenging’
Despite trying their level best, the issue of accommodation is becoming a huge
challenge for Team Dimapur as people from outside the State are arriving by railways and
roadways.
roadways.
Agriculture production commissioner (APC) and in-charge of Dimapur for
COVID-19 related activities, Y. Kikheto Sema warned that if Dimapur hosted
returnees of Peren and Mon districts in addition to Dimapur-based returnees,
there would be hardly any accommodation left even as another special train
with 90 Dimapur-bound passengers on board is expected between
May 24 and 25 from Gurgaon.
He expressed concern that although no official letter had been received,
the cabinet decision as per discussion at 10 am on Thursday for housing
Peren and Mon returnees at Dimapur by superseding the earlier decision
that returnees of these two districts would be sent to their home districts after
their arrival had been communicated. Of the 1,467 passengers on board the
special train from Chennai that is expected to reach here on Friday afternoon,
1075 (73%) of them will have to be quarantined at the town, while the
remaining 402 (27%) hailing from other districts will be transported to Kohima.
Mentioning that he would appreciate if the decision was taken by taking into
account the ground realities, the APC however added as a public servant he
would carry out the instruction. But he cautioned that if returnees of other
districts were housed here, within no time there would be no space left for
accommodating the returnees hailing from Dimapur.
Observing that every district had an efficient administration and district task force,
Kikheto hoped that they would gear up facilities to take in the stranded
people of their own districts.
Meanwhile, Kikheto expressed surprise that some colonies/villages and even
parents were refusing to come and take their children even after the
quarantine period was over.
Ganeshnagar to be quarantine centre
As reported earlier in this newspaper, State government has decided to set up
an Institutional Quarantine Centre for the stranded persons returning to Nagaland
at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Ganeshnagar under Dimapur district.
According to DIPR, DIG Training Chumukedima Aotemsu has been assigned
as overall in charge of the Quarantine Centre and he would put in place for
all arrangements including food, basic amenities and logistics etc.
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