Ludhiana: Deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma, on Monday, set up a committee for ensuring necessary arrangements in crematoriums and graveyards for cremating / burying bodies of Covid-19 casualties.
The committee would be headed by commissioner, municipal corporation, and joint CP (headquarters), divisional forest officer, Ludhiana, district food, civil and supply controller (west) and Indian Oil Corporation LPG senior sales manager Sanchit Sharma would be its members.
The panel would have freedom to use any cremation ground and cemetery for cremating and burying bodies. None of the managements of cremation / burial grounds can deny performance of last rites of Covid victims. An FIR can be registered for non-compliance, he added.
Ludhiana: Alarmed over shortage of empty cylinders with suppliers, distributors and manufacturers of oxygen, the industries department has started making desperate appeals to industrialists and others who have them. The deputy commissioner has also ordered that all the empty and filled oxygen cylinders lying with factories be returned to bottling plants at the earliest.
DC Varinder Kumar Sharma in a video message said, “There is a dire need for empty cylinders. As the district magistrate I order the industry and non-Covid hospitals to immediately return all empty and filled cylinders to the bottling plants from where these were sourced. I have also formed a team of officials to conduct checks in factories, non-Covid hospitals and other establishments. In case cylinders are found, strict action will be taken.”
Sharma said that the 11-member committee has been tasked to review the consumption and balance stock of the oxygen by the hospitals and other health institutions. ANI FILE
LUDHIANA: In the wake of a sharp increase in demand for oxygen for the Covid-19 patients in the hospitals across Ludhiana district in Punjab, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Saturday set up an oxygen audit committee.
Sharma said that the 11-member committee has been tasked to review the consumption and balance stock of the oxygen by the hospitals and other health institutions.
Further, it will ensure that the use of oxygen for the management of serious Covid-19 patients is rational and per prescribed treatment protocols.
Punjab Mandi Board distributes 5000 facemasks among farmers/labourers in grain markets ROZANA SPOKESMAN
Updated Apr 19, 2021, 2:58 pm IST
Mandi Board has so far distributed 5000 facemasks to keep the grain markets free of Covid.
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Ludhiana: In a bid to ensure the safety and security of the farmers, labourers, commission agents, and other workforce engaged in ongoing procurement operations from the contagion, the Mandi Board has so far distributed 5000 facemasks among them to keep the grain markets free of Covid.
On the directions of Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma, the Mandi Board along with the Food Supply department has already made elaborate arrangements of decongesting markets besides ensuring social distancing through marking of the patches.
LUDHIANA: In the wake of the surge in Covid-19 cases, the district magistrate-cum-deputy commissioner on Monday ordered the closure of all educational institutions till April 30.
In the order, the district magistrate said as all educational institutions, including schools/colleges, were already closed since April 9, it has been found that IELTS and other coaching centres are running in full capacity.
Varinder Kumar Sharma said the online classes were allowed for IELTS and other coaching centres.
He said the violators would face legal action.
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