DIG (Traffic) is nodal officer for foreign returnees in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 15

UT DIG (Traffic) Shashank Anand has been deputed as the nodal officer for city residents returning from abroad under the Vande Bharat Mission.

As per the standard operating procedure (SOP) issued by the UT Administration, all foreign returnees have to, immediately on arrival, undergo mandatory institutional quarantine for seven days at an approved facility on a payment basis followed by home isolation for further seven days, in case the person tests negative for Covid-19 during the first seven days of arrival.

A police official said family members of persons returning from abroad were requested to share their particulars in advance with the office of the nodal officer by an email or by phone so that necessary arrangements for bringing passengers to the city from airports and their institutional quarantine could be made in a timely manner.

Family members of foreign returnees are not allowed to receive them at the airport. Passengers returning from abroad are being brought to the city by road in an authorised transport on a payment basis. It is also advised to such persons not to book connecting domestic flights to reach Chandigarh on arrival in India.

The police said any person who violates the set provisions would be liable for legal action under Section 51 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 (punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two year or with fine, or with both), Section 3 of the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897, and Sections 188, 269, 270 and 271 of the IPC (punishable with six-month imprisonment or Rs 1,000) as the case might be.

A total of 198 persons had reached the city since May 8.