PREVENTIVE RATHER THAN CURATIVE;STEPS NECESSARY TO PREVENT CORONA-SPREAD IN DELHI

Bureau,Odishabarta

Preventive rather than curative steps necessary to prevent corona-spread in Delhi – Political compulsions of vote-bank politics not allowing to take preventive steps for strictly removing all encroachments.

Delhi:Increasing beds including in Intensive Care Units (ICUs), ventilators and all other medical facilities now planned by central and Delhi governments are simply eye-wash curative steps for treating corona-affected people of Delhi which will remain grossly insufficient till real preventive steps are taken to prevent corona-spread in Delhi. Even daily statistical data given by government-agencies regarding new corona cases and corona-related deaths may be far below than actual figures because these do not include those going under self-isolation in homes without informing concerned agencies.

Real cause is uncontrollable crowd all over the city in markets, roads and footpaths for which only and only cause is all-over encroachments in the city which make markets, roads, footpaths congested. Otherwise city has very wide roads with footpaths, but these encroachments make all these over-crowded. But political rulers avoid touching law-breaking encroachers because these are real vote-banks with law-abiding citizens being in minority. A 1975-emergency is urgently required to remove all types of encroachments all over Delhi. But unfortunate situation is that politicians even opposed Supreme Court order to remove encroachments on sides of rail-track.

Apart from strictly removing all encroachments, two-day complete weekend lockdown from 8 pm on Fridays till 8 am on Mondays may be implemented by making Sunday as uniform weekly off-day for all markets in Delhi and New Delhi like is system in Mumbai. System will neither affect business nor tax-collection because traders and people will have complete five days for trade and shopping.

Input;Mr.Subash