Guwahati: For the first time since the Covid-19 plague in Assam, the state government will use drones to oversee challenging guidelines in areas where cases soar.
Amid fears that the pandemic will take place outside 2021 and the threat of the third wave that towered, Himanta’s main minister could Sarma on Sunday called on district and police authorities to monitor through drones to identify places where people came out in large quantities, Breaking Covid restrictions.
In a review meeting, it was carried out virtually, with the authority of nine districts, Sarma directed them to move widely throughout the district to ensure strict Covid protocol enforcement and shared the wise responsibility of the sector against the judge to monitor violations.
A source who knows about the meeting to TOI that for the first time, drone technology will be used for strict monitoring of the Covid situation in the state.
“People, especially in rural areas and tea gardens, have been found to violate Covid rules even during curfew.
Onus is in the deputy commissioner to choose a bag where the drone will be used,” the source added.
Furthermore, officials were directed at monitoring the district border and road to stop unnecessary movements, regardless of intensifying vaccination in the district.
Here, officials say drone technology can play an important role in monitoring.
Although there is a ban between districts, people look traveling from one district to another easily, even through the highway.
On Sunday, the minister’s chairman conducted a comprehensive review of the Covid-19 situation in nine districts – Biswanath, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup (Metropolitan), Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Sonitpur and Sivasagar – reported a high level of prisoners.
In the virtual meeting attended by Sarma Samir Secretary Samir Sinha, the main secretary of the Ministry of Health, Anurag Goel, Mission Director (NHM Assam), Lakshmanan S and other senior officers, the minister’s chairman expressed concern about the guidelines of detention, which he said had triggered the spread of the virus Furthermore.
He asked the district collectors to identify assembly points in urban areas, villages and tea gardens and strictly enforce the detention steps in the area.
He then directed senior officers to visit villages where the people’s assemblies lasted and on the market and prevented them from coming out and ensuring that the shops remained closed in the area if the district was under total detention.
He said that the circle officer, with the help of Gaon Beras, would illat the people in the villages to distance themselves from organizing family functions and social meetings where the number of people were quite large and could cause further spread of viruses.
Assam used drones to oversee Covid’s violators
