Maksam Tayeng

PASIGHAT, Mar 31: Keeping in tune with the efforts of the state in combating the Covid-19 pandemic, the remote Namsing Circle under Mebo Sub-Division in East Siang district has taken all precautionary measures despite severe shortage of manpower and basic administrative infrastructure. 
According to the Circle Officer Khoda Lasa, a total of 33 persons who have returned from various locations outside the state have been kept under strict home quarantine under vigil of the Primary Health Centres like Borguli and Namsing. “We are putting all-out efforts including reaching out to villages and taking help of the youths, GBs and village councillors in identifying these people,” said Lasa from his remote and poorly-equipped Circle office at Namsing today.

Lasa further informed that as the Circle is remotely located sharing boundary with Assam, accessibility by waterways through boats via Siang river and through the porous border is easy since there are no police checkposts and screening facilities. However, the administration is leaving no stone unturned in executing the lockdown although the medical teams are finding it hard to access the villages like Gadum, Mer etc located nearby Arunachal-Assam boundary. 
Meanwhile, some people from Assam intending to reach Namsing via Siang river in a motor boat were pushed back in order to protect the village, CO informed, adding that all the villages under the Circle have taken the pandemic seriously and had conducted rituals like ‘Ekki Pator’ (prohibition of movement of traffic, restricting entry of outside people even from neighbouring villages).
The difficult time, meanwhile, has exposed the urgent needs of Namsing Circle where there is still no presence of police and availability of proper electricity, mobile network connection etc.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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