Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, June 16: At the initiative of Chief Justice Gita Mittal, High Court of J&K organized a special online programme “Covid-19: Aware-ness on the Government SOPs and Protocols”.
Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, D.C Srinagar and Sushma Chouhan, D.C Jammu conducted the programme as Resource Persons and the participants included all the Judicial Officers working in the Union Territory of J&K and Union Territory of Ladakh, High Court of J&K Staff, Staff of Sub-ordinate Courts and other stake holders in justice delivery system.
The programme was aimed at reminding the participants of the SOPs, guidelines and protocols issued by the government from time to time to deal with Covid-19 pandemic.
It was further intended to clear the air about lot of mis-information available on social media platforms which has been causing confusion as to ways of dealing with the pandemic.
Shahid Iqbal Choudhary and Sushma Chauhan in their presentations enlisted the measures taken by the Governments at Central and UT level since the time of first case coming to light in India,the reasons for taking precautionary measures like lockdown and restriction of public movement, and health management issues.
They highlighted the fact that the pandemic caused by Covid-19 is a stark reality which needs to be faced with lot of caution and self regulation. To minimize the spread of the pandemic the Government and its agencies have come up with standard operating procedure, guidelines and advisories to be followed by people across all walks of life.
This has been done in order to ensure that the pandemic does not disrupt the essential activities of the public institutions and those of public in general. The resource persons also addressed various misconceptions pertaining to the protocols to be followed in the wake of impending pandemic and about the availability of health remedies. They highlighted the fact that it is necessary for all to follow the Government advisories and not to get swayed away by the information flooding the social media.
They also talked about the specific precautions required to be taken by the public in accessing the public places, especially the court complexes. In all such public institutions, they told, it is required to minimize assembly of public in large numbers, to maintain social distancing and to wear face masks compulsorily.
The awareness programme generated lot of interest among the participants. They posed some relevant queries, which were responded by the resource persons.
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