DHAKA, June 12, 2020 (BSS) – Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Minister M Tajul Islam today urged local administration to rejuvenate different committees, formed earlier to distribute relief and other purposes, to impose lockdown properly.
“The committees, comprising UNOs, upazila chairmen, union parishad chairmen and other concerned, were formed by respective deputy commissioners in different times in order to distribute relief stuff and other purposes….So imposing lockdown will be more effective if the committees are activated again,” said the LGRD minister.
He made the call today while delivering speech at a virtual meetingon the current situation of coronavirus pandemic in the country and progress of area-based lockdown implementation, said a press release.
Presided over by Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque, the meeting wasattended by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.
District administration high officials were also present at the meeting.
The government earlier decided to divide different areas of the country into three zones—red, yellow and green—in terms of the intensity of coronavirus infection to stem the spread of the deadly disease.
The decision was taken on June 1 at a high-level meeting at the Cabinet Division at the secretariat here.
According to the plan, strict lockdown will be imposed in Red Zones to control further spread of the novel coronavirus aiming to reduce the number of patients until it turns to a Yellow Zone.
Some restrictions also will be applicable for Yellow Zones, with a view to turning it into a Green Zone.
The minister opined that the authorities concerned must ensure some facilities -home delivery for essential items like food and medicines, distributing food to lower income groups, ambulance service, isolation centre, coronavirus test booths and burial facilities – before implementingthe total lockdown in Red Zones.