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Spitting in public now an offence under Disaster Management Act: MHA

Spitting in public without caring two hoots for regulations may not be so easy now with the Union Home Ministry making the act a punishable offence under the strict Disaster Management Act in its revised guidelines for lockdown issued on Wednesday to contain COVID-19. The guidelines issued by the ministry also make wearing of face masks in public places mandatory. Spitting in public is an offence under municipal laws in various cities, but it is hardly taken seriously by the people in the country. The Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation has imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 if anyone is caught spitting in public. Similar measures are also in place in municipal corporations of Delhi, and several other states. Bihar, Jharkhand, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Haryana, Nagaland and Assam have already issued orders on the ban of use of smokeless tobacco products and spitting in public places amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Under the consolidated revised guidelines issued by the Mi...
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Red Volunteers : Lifeline for patients during pandemic

 A young brigade of the CPM and other Left parties, who formed the Red Volunteers group last year, has been providing aid to people during the pandemic across the state.  Debashis Nandy, a member of the group and resident of Hooghly’s Kotrang Ghoshpara, arranged an oxygen cylinder within half an hour for a 12-year-old boy after receiving a call from his father around 3.20am on Friday. “The patient’s father was on the verge of sobbing. He was anxious as the oxygen supply was available for about 30 minutes only and afterwards he had no back-up. I assured him that we would arrange something within 30 minutes and we were able to live up to our word,” said Nandy, a member of the CPM Kotrang area committee said. Another Red volunteer, Arka Bhowmik of Kalobaari Sporting Club in North 24-Parganas’ Ashoknagar returned home around 6am on Saturday.  Bhowmik had spent the entire night at the Khardah Sri Balaram Seva Mandir State General Hospital to admit a 62-year-old Covid patient ...
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