“The state administration including police shall strictly implement Covid restrictions and ensure that any person found on public street should be wearing a mask, no matter what position s/he occupies in society and with same strictness, use of helmets shall be implemented,” the judges added.
During the hearing the bench was informed that recently a former mayor of Aurangabad was seen celebrating his birthday in violation of Covid norms.
Irked over this, the bench said, “We seriously fail to understand as to why the people’s representatives, who are supposed to lead from front are celebrating their birthdays publicly and even breaching the protocols?”
Meanwhile, the bench noted that citizens from rural parts of various districts get panicked and go to cities for conducting the RT-PCR tests. “Thus, we are of the opinion that the authorities must increase the rapid antigen tests at rural hospitals so that the tests results are made available to them at the earliest and they won’t have to wait for days altogether for their reports. This would also ensure timely treatment for such citizens,” the judges opined.
Further, the bench ordered industrialists, philanthropists and even NGOs to come forward for contributing towards setting up LPG crematoriums. Another directive has been issued to local corporators, MLAs etc to use constituency development funds for installing electric/LPG crematoriums in the region.
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