Ferrying non local laborers to JK without COVID19 test will jeopardize the wellbeing of locals and theirs as well: Kamal
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Monday expressed concern over the ferrying of non local laborers from outside to Kashmir without mandatory COVID19 testing and subsequent quarantine.
In a statement, to KNS, Party’s Additional General Secretary Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamal said the ruling regime in J&K is busy in the realization of misplaced priorities at a time when its prime priority should have been to fight the crises induced by COVID-19.
“Far from congregating the efforts to combat the viral sprawl, the present ruling regime in yet another expression of brazenly dimwittedness is considering to ferry laborers from other parts of country to JK. We have always welcomed them with open arms, but this time the situation is completely different. Allowing such a massive interstate movement at this juncture will jeopardize the wellbeing of the laborers as well as the locals, given the fact that the local administration has already failed to combat COVID-19 mortality and infectivity. Such a move goes against the established COVID-19 protocol and required health advisories of various national agencies,” he said.
He further added, “At a time when locals are being told to keep inside, what good will it do to ferry laborers from outside. As such every viable activity has come to a grinding halt in this part of the world. Government has failed in its response to rise up to the exigencies of the COVID-19 induced lockdowns. We have people hankering for basic medical facilities and other essentials. How will the administration cope up with the requirements of laborers, their ration, medical checkup, testing, when it has miserably failed to ensure it to the locals? The whole idea is fraught with absurdity, it can morph into a dire situation causing harm to them as well as to the locals.”(KNS)
