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  • Kumbh Mela: Rishikesh’s Bharat Bhoomi Tourist complex to be set up as COVID care centre

    By ANI
    RISHIKESH: In view of increasing Covid-19 cases in Uttrakhand, the Dehradun district administration has acquired Bharat Bhumi Tourist complex under Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam in Rishikesh to utilise it as a Covid care centre.

    Speaking to ANI, District Magistrate, Dehradun Ashish Srivastava said, “Keeping in view of exercising COVID guidelines amid Kumbh Mela celebrations, Rishikesh’s Bharat Bhoomi Tourist complex under Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam Limited will be set up as COVID care centre.”

    The district authorities are preparing for the same, he said.

    Uttarakhand reported 791 new Covid-19 positive cases including 303 cases in Dehradun and 185 cases in Haridwar on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases to 1,03,602.

    Despite the spike in COVID-19 cases, Union Health Ministry has said there are no plan to cut short the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar prematurely and is hoping that standard operating procedures (SOPs) are being followed there.

    On being asked if Kumbh Mela can be a super-spreader of COVID-19, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan yesterday said, “As the super spreader events are concerned, the union government almost a month ago issued an SOP, specifically for practices to be adopted in Kumbh and had a long meeting with the state government’s officers.”

    “One fact that we usually lose sight of is that the duration of Kumbh has already been curtailed, Kumbh wherever it happens is usually for three and a half to four months, the present Kumbh has been curtailed to a month,” he added.

  • Helipad ready in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, Chinook made safe landing

    Air Force cargo helicopter Chinook made a safe landing at the helipad in Kedarnath on Saturday morning. It is being told that the district disaster management authority had prepared a helipad in Kedarnath. 

    With this, heavy machines have to be delivered to speed up the reconstruction work there. This helipad was inspected by the Air Force team. The reconstruction work of the second phase in Kedarnath is proposed from October. Tenders have been issued for this.

    Recently, Chief Secretary Omprakash had taken stock of the arrangements at Kedarnath and directed the DDMA to prepare the helipad within ten days. In the year 2015, this helipad has been expanded by expanding the helipad made for landing the Mi-26 helicopter.

    For this, 45 cottages of Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam were removed from one part of the helipad. A 50 meter wide and 100 meter long platform has been prepared for the helipad. On Saturday, Air Force cargo helicopter Chinook made a safe landing at the helipad built in Kedarnath.