Church embarks on intensive awareness campaign on COVID

TURA: The Achik Baptist Krima No-6 Pastoral Forum, South West Garo Hills, has embarked on an intensive awareness campaign on COVID-19 in the villages across the district in collaboration with the District Administration and District Public Relations Office, Ampati, from Thursday.
The campaign, led by pastors and youth groups of the district, covered at least 38 villages with four teams on the first day and is expected to cover all the villages across the district in the coming days. The campaign is being conducted in Garo, Koch, Hajong, Bengali and Assamese languages depending on the area in the market places, roadsides and the villages.
Nokmas, gaonburas, religious leaders and the villagers were given awareness on COVID-19, its preventive measures, the need to strictly observe the protocols of advisories issued by the government and to extend support and help to those returning from outside the state and undergoing home quarantine instead of stigmatising them besides the importance of social distancing as well as wearing masks.
The teams are also distributing face masks to the villagers as well as leaflets on COVID-19 published by the DIPR and other pamphlets issued by the district administration.
Registration
Meanwhile, the South West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner has requested all open market grocery retail and wholesale dealers dealing with food and essential items to register their retail establishments. This is being done to ensure availability of essential commodities in all the localities.
The Deputy Commissioner (Supply) has directed all interested retail stores and wholesale traders to adhere and comply with guidelines issued by the Centre which has prepared a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the registration.
Informing that application forms will be available at the office of the DC, the notification added that forms duly filled should be accompanied by two copies of passport-sized photographs of the applicant, photo identity documents issued by the government, Food Safety Security Act License issued by the Inspector of Food & Safety, South West Garo Hills, registration or certificate issued by the Legal Metrology, South West Garo Hills, labour registration certificate, GSTIN registration, professional tax registration, photo copy of PAN and Aadhaar card as well as trading license from the GHADC for non-tribals. The application along with the relevant documents should be submitted in duplicate copies at the office of the DC (Supply) before June 20.