Malkangiri: Norms violated with impunity as hundreds collect at competition website

By Express News Service
MALKANGIRI: Covd tips issued by district administrations seem stringent however are the simplest to flout particularly throughout festivals. All norms within the ebook together with sporting of face masks and social distancing have been thrown to the wind in entrance of Kanyamajhi bandha makeshift shrine on the primary day of Badayatra right here on Saturday. Interestingly, the shrine has been arrange in entrance of the district police workplace the place the deities have been introduced from Tamasa in an enormous congregation comprising round 2,000 folks.

A goat was sacrificed earlier than the 4 deities – Kanamraj, Balraj, Potraj and Mutuyulamma (Jagyanseni) who have been then taken into the shrine. The devotees didn’t cease on the goat and sacrificed a whole lot of different animals and birds simply 50 metre from the shrine. The crowds swelled to five,000 on NH-326 when the deities have been taken to a different makeshift shrine, ‘Mandia bhata’ within the city.

Administration and police appeared helpless because the directive of not permitting a congregation of greater than 200 throughout non secular occasions was flouted with impunity. Violation was not the one worrying issue throughout the festivities. Several non permanent stalls have been opened on each side of the stretch of the freeway from Balimela Chowk to district police workplace the place hundreds thronged and mingled.

Sources stated, a whole lot of devotees from Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh thronged the shrine and the district administration had little clue about them. Sub-Collector Rameswar Pradhan, who was requested by the Collector to make sure the norms should not violated throughout the competition stated, he’ll instruct his juniors together with the native IIC and tehsildar to implement stringently.

Migrants begin returning dwelling in GanjamBerhampur: Despite repeated appeals by the Ganjam administration, migrant labourers have began returning to the district from their work locations. On Saturday, over 100 migrants arrived from Surat in Gujarat in a practice and alighted at Berhampur, Chhatrapur and Khallikote railway stations. The district officers thronged the stations to gather particulars of the employees who denied revealing their identities.

They stated spinning mills in Surat are being closed twice every week and so they returned apprehending a lockdown within the metropolis. Since final one week, the second gate of the Berhampur railway station has been closed and screening of passengers arriving on the station is being accomplished. The district administration just lately appealed to the employees to not return to their native villages throughout the festive season. Over 7 lakh staff had returned to the district from different states throughout lockdown final 12 months. After staying at dwelling for a number of houses, most of them had returned to their work locations.