Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 27: Former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today appealed LG Administration to put in place a mechanism to ensure uninterrupted supplies and deliveries of essential services to the general public of J&K.
He urged upon the concerned departments to work on war footing basis to tackle the situation. Considering the rise in the confirmed coronavirus cases in J&K, Bhalla appealed Administration to upgrade hospitals/infrastructure with the resources available with them. He emphasized that more Government hospital should be fully equipped with doctors, staff and equipments to tackle COVID-19 and that hospitals should be a dedicated health facility exclusively for treating patients having infected with the virus.
Bhalla appealed the Administration to take care of stranded people including students, workers in small trading activities and their families, who are helplessly waiting at Jammu Bus Stand for some mode of transportation to reach at their homes. Because of complete lockdown and curfew like restrictions, no transport is available for these stranded people, who are also running short of money and eatables. He said many people from Kashmir, Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar, Poonch and other parts of J&K, working as labourers or helpers at industrial units, brick kilns, shops and small trading activities here, are leaving Jammu for their native places as all the commercial establishments are closed following 21-day lockdown announced by Govt.
Bhalla also demanded to allow inter-state movement of “animal feed and fodder. He said the milk that we drink everyday does not appear from thin air. A dedicated amount of feed and fodder is needed for the cattle to survive and to produce milk. Providing the right quantity of feed is a matter of concern for every cattle owner. With people who used to feed them earlier compelled to stay at home, there are many animals that facing food scarcity.
The Congress leader sought helpt from big Corporate Houses, NGOs and civil society groups to step-in to help those most in need by collecting funds and supplying food kits, cooked meals or other essentials such as soaps and sanitizers.
While making passionate appeal to the administration for intensifying the sanitization of public spaces and utility services, Bhalla hoped the people will fight the life threatening epidemic with resilience and abide by the advisories issued from time to time.
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