Emergency Operations Centre in Kottayam
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It will commence functioning today
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It will commence functioning today
A state-of-the art District Emergency Operations Centre, which has been set up at the District Collectorate in Kottayam for coordination of disaster management activities, will commence operations on Monday.
Revenue minister E. Chandrasekharan will inaugurate the facility at a function to be presided over by Thomas Chazhikadan, MP, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, MLA, District Collector M. Anjana, District Police Chief G. Jayadev, ADM Anil Oommen, and hazard analyst Atulya Thomas will speak.
The centre, comprising a control room, incident commander’s cabin, conference hall, resting space, and pantry, has been established with Plan funds from the State Disaster Management Authority.
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh tribal students return to schools
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Nine months after schools were closed in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak, tribal students enrolled in residential schools of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are finally returning to their classrooms with strict protocols in place.
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New Delhi: Nine months after schools were closed in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak, tribal students enrolled in residential schools of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are finally returning to their classrooms with strict protocols in place. However, the numbers remain limited. The tribal students enrolled in senior classes of Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) of the two states have resumed classes from this month. EMRS are premier schools funded by the tribal affairs ministry and run by state governments which provide boarding and education for tribal students in remote districts.
The ambulance reached the Silchar airport, 30 km away, in about 20 minutes
SILCHAR: Police in Silchar facilitated a “green corridor” from a private hospital in the city to the airport for a Covid patient, who had to be shifted to Kolkata in an air ambulance.
Following a request in this regard from the District Disaster Management Authority, superintendent of police (Cachar) Bhanwar Lal Meena and his team prepared the ‘green corridor’ for transporting the patient from Green Heals Hospital in Meherpur locality of the town to Silchar Airport at Kumbhirgram at 2.10 pm.
The convoy of vehicles, including the ambulance carrying the 32-year-old patient, reached the airport where the air ambulance was waiting to shift him to a hospital in Kolkata.
SRINAGAR: In the wake of the emergence of a new fast-moving variant of SARS-CoV-2 as detected in the United Kingdom and several European countries, the Srinagar administration in line with the advisory issued by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MHFW) GoI has initiated preventive measures in efforts to prevent its spread in the district.
District Magistrate Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary who is also the Chairman District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Srinagar has ordered that all those who have travel history to the UK or any European country in the past two weeks – since December 9 – will have to undergo RT-PCR testing for COVID-19.
SRINAGAR: In the wake of the emergence of a new fast-moving variant of SARS-CoV-2 as detected in the United Kingdom and several European countries, the Srinagar administration in line with the advisory issued by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MHFW) GoI has initiated preventive measures in efforts to prevent its spread in the district.
District Magistrate Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary who is also the Chairman District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Srinagar has ordered that all those who have travel history to the UK or any European country in the past two weeks – since December 9 – will have to undergo RT-PCR testing for COVID-19 .