Shillong, August 30: To fight COVID-19 the District Administration of East Khasi Hills District in collaboration with the residence and shop owners under take the cleaning drived at Police Bazar, Khyndailad and GS Road.
Speaking to the media Smti Martina Lynttan incident commander and Extra Assistant Commissioner said that people have realising the importance of cleanliness, now people has become more aware with the pandemic, they cannot be ignorance negligence they have to be alert and careful now that all the SOP and protocol has to be follow weather at home or in the work place.
“As the incident Commander who is looking after this area is my duty and responsibility to spread the message to reach out to the people and specially to make them fill that they are not alone in this fight we are all in this together it very nice to see that people keep coming out of their home since morning with the intention of cleaning this area, clean safe and COVID free and cooperation from everyone” said Smti Martina.
On the numbers of shops in Police Bazar and GS there area around 1300 to 1400 numbers of shops, initially they have this problem from the people and shopkeepers who were not cooperating and violating the protocols and action was taken against them some shop were close down.
During this course of action they have notice an improvement be it in the change of their mindset and behaviour and attitude, where people have realises like wearing a mask, maintaining social and using hand sanitizers and now we are not talking about hand sanitizing but most of the shop in police bazaar and GS Road are sanitized. The people have realises that sanitation of their shop is important and hope that this will continued after this pandemic is over.
When the whole country is fighting against COVID as the citizen of Meghalaya has become their duty to see that their locality become clean, when we keep our house and area clean then we can fight against COVID-19 the motive behind is to clean the police Bazar with the support from the District administration in cleaning police Bazar.