KOLKATA: Police have identified several markets in additional areas – especially in towns 10, 11, 14 and 16 – where police will increase mask vigil after a slight increase. covid numbers from these areas in the last four weeks.
Situated on the Jadavpur-Baghjatin side on one end and Behala-Joka on the other, these areas are also located close to South 24 Parganas, which have recently seen a high number of cases in pockets and have also been included in the list of containment zones. has been done. “We have focused on all those places which have high public connectivity. Markets are especially those places that visit hundreds every day and where the compliance level is still not up to the desired level as per public transport,” said a senior official of the South Suburban Division.
Kolkata Police said that it has conducted a joint awareness campaign with KMC. “But there can be no real implementation unless there is a prosecution,” said a senior official of helpless the division. DC (ssd) Rashid Munir Khan and DC (Behala) Swati Bhangalia told TOI that an effective awareness-cum-prosecution program has been finalized for both Jadavpuri and Behala Police Division.
At present, the police said that there are no less than 16 markets including Behala, Simultala, Behala Chowrasta. Thakurpukur, Haridevpur, Jadavpur, Bansdroni, Garia, Baghajatin, Bijoygarh, Shree Colony and Pallisree, are on the watch list. “We have found that once vaccinated, people are refusing to follow basic COVID norms. Perhaps the biggest violators are those who go to the market every morning,” said an official. Market vendors in these wards have been asked to enforce mask discipline on their own.
The police have intensified the anti-mask campaign, punishing around 2,000 people since Saturday.
The police have already started sudden investigations around these markets and raided public places like lakes and parks to prosecute the violators. Even as the KMC indicated that it would increase the vaccination in these pockets, the police would meet the RWAs and advise them to maintain all the COVID protocols and not let the guard down during the festive season.
In the last four weeks, 475 new cases have been reported in Borough 10.
Situated on the Jadavpur-Baghjatin side on one end and Behala-Joka on the other, these areas are also located close to South 24 Parganas, which have recently seen a high number of cases in pockets and have also been included in the list of containment zones. has been done. “We have focused on all those places which have high public connectivity. Markets are especially those places that visit hundreds every day and where the compliance level is still not up to the desired level as per public transport,” said a senior official of the South Suburban Division.
Kolkata Police said that it has conducted a joint awareness campaign with KMC. “But there can be no real implementation unless there is a prosecution,” said a senior official of helpless the division. DC (ssd) Rashid Munir Khan and DC (Behala) Swati Bhangalia told TOI that an effective awareness-cum-prosecution program has been finalized for both Jadavpuri and Behala Police Division.
At present, the police said that there are no less than 16 markets including Behala, Simultala, Behala Chowrasta. Thakurpukur, Haridevpur, Jadavpur, Bansdroni, Garia, Baghajatin, Bijoygarh, Shree Colony and Pallisree, are on the watch list. “We have found that once vaccinated, people are refusing to follow basic COVID norms. Perhaps the biggest violators are those who go to the market every morning,” said an official. Market vendors in these wards have been asked to enforce mask discipline on their own.
The police have intensified the anti-mask campaign, punishing around 2,000 people since Saturday.
The police have already started sudden investigations around these markets and raided public places like lakes and parks to prosecute the violators. Even as the KMC indicated that it would increase the vaccination in these pockets, the police would meet the RWAs and advise them to maintain all the COVID protocols and not let the guard down during the festive season.
In the last four weeks, 475 new cases have been reported in Borough 10.
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