Kathmandu, Jan. 29
Minister for Home
Affairs Bal Krishna Khand has taken updates about the COVID-19, cold wave and
snow fall from the chief district officers of 20 districts across the country.
He conducted telephone
conversation with the CDOs to get information about the situation in the Terai
amid cold waves and mountains amid snow fall, and distribution of warm clothes
and firewood to save poor and disabled people, said the Ministry of Home
Affairs.
He sought information
related to the number of vaccinated people in the districts, statue of peace
and security, and distribution of warm clothes.
Minister Khand talked
to Rabindra Acharya, CDOs of Manang, Dadeldhura, Gorkha, Taplejung, Bajhang and
Solukhumbu districts – Rabindra Acharya,
Prem Raj Joshi, Shankar Hari Acharya, Umesh Pandey, Baburam Aryal and Ganesh
Bikram Shahi respectively.
He also held telephone
conversation with Rom Bahadur Mahat, CDO of Mugu, Phanindra Dahal, CDO of
Khotang, Dil Kumar Tamang, CDO of Okhaldhunga, Indra Dev Yadav, CDO of Sunsari,
Birendra Kumar Yadav, CDO of Udayapur, and Suresh Neupane, CDO of Panchthar.
Likewise, conversations
were held with Bed Nidhi Khanal of Sindhupalchok, Madhav Prasad Dhungana of
Ilam, Nawaraj Jaisi of Rasuwa, Chiranjivi Rana of Myagdi, Sushil Baidya of
Lamjung, Janardan Gautam of Saptari, Krishna Bahadur Shahi of Rautahat, and
Devi Pandey Khatri of Parbat district.
The government has
directed the districts to distribute warm clothes in Terai and mountains about
two-and-a-half months ago. According to the ministry, the Minister has taken
updates about the progress of the same.
Tamang, CDO of Okhaldhunga,
said that Minister Khand had sought updates about the status of COVID-19
contagion in the district, progress in vaccination drive, condition about
isolation, peace and security status and the distribution of warm clothes.
He has also asked for
information about the coronavirus contagion in the people coming to Nepal from
other countries.
Dhungana, CDO of Ilam,
said that the Minister also sought information about the status of the disease
in the people coming through the border points, rate of recovery and running of
schools in the district.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 30 January 2021.
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