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10 cattle markets to be set up maintaining health rules: DNCC Mayor
Dhaka North City Corporation will set up 10 cattle markets in its area ahead of Eid-ul-Azha maintaining Covid health rules and government restrictions, Mayor Atiqul Islam said Sunday.
The mayor said this while attending a meeting with the sacrificial animal haat monitoring committee and lease holders of the haats.
Ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, one permanent and nine makeshift haats will be set up in the DNCC area, he said.
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To monitor the 10 haats, a 14-member committee has already been formed including 12 councillors, 2 veterinary officers, where ward-19 councillor Md Mofizur Rahman was made the convener, he added.
Atiqul Islam said, in every haat, 100 volunteers will be appointed from the Shakti Foundation with enough surgical masks while leaseholders will ensure hand sanitizers and necessary hygiene materials in every haat.
Enough number of body temperature measuring machines will be made available at the haats, he said.
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Traders and buyers all will have to maintain social distance and health rules in the haat as the area will be under surveillance by CCTV cameras, said the mayor.
The DNCC mayor said, sacrificial animals brought in the haats will also be available online for customers to see.
Atiqul warns of legal action if shops are kept open
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Monday warned that legal action including revoking of liscence will be taken if anyone keeps shop open violating the government directives.
“The shopping mall and shop owners should abide by the government instructions,” said the DNCC mayor while visiting Bijoy Sarani area of the capital.
The DNCC has taken various welfare activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, he said.
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The emergency food service of the government is active and destitute people can seek food assistance by making a call @ 333, said the mayor.
“We have to follow the health guidelines to make our family, city and country safe,” said Atikul.
Besides, he also assured of taking necessary steps to activate the fountains under DNCC in the city.
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Moreover, DNCC dwellers can log complaints or provide their opinions about roads, mosquitoes, street lamp, dumping station, waterlogging, public toilet and illegal establishment by an app named ‘Shobar Dhaka’ to get quick solution to the problems, he said.
DNCC teams up with Young Bangla to make masses embrace masks
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has teamed up with Young Bangla, a youth volunteering platform, launching a mass-masking campaign to help increase proper mask-wearing in Dhaka significantly and reduce Covid-19 transmission saving thousands of lives.
The campaign, led by the city corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam, was brought forth in partnership with local and global organizations Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Yale University, Stanford Medical School, Centre for Research and Information (CRI), Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged Women, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), and BD Clean.
Around 100 volunteers from Young Bangla, the youth secretariat of the ruling Awami League's research wing Centre for Research & Information (CRI), teamed up with the organizations to leverage the impact created by the life-saving initiative.
In the first design meeting of the campaign, the Mayor said, “We need to learn how to manage our lives to cope with the threat of Covid. Proper mask wearing is a critical part of that. This challenge needs broad partnership. I am very happy that we are forming a global partnership — the DNCC Mass Masking Campaign—to tackle this big challenge.”
The Mass Masking Campaign is based on a model called NORM (NORMalize mask-wearing model). Developed by Yale University, Stanford University, and IPA, in partnership with GreenVoice, a local NGO, NORM was rigorously researched using a large-scale randomized evaluation.
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The research was similar to vaccine trials, involving 350,000 people across 600 unions throughout Bangladesh for the last four months. NORM for rural Bangladesh includesfour components: distributing free masks, offering information on mask-wearing, reinforcing mask-wearing in-person and in public, and modeling and endorsement by trusted leaders.
No trade license for buildings without fire safety: DNCC Mayor
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will not provide trade license or holding numbers to the buildings which will not install separate fire safety system from now on, declared Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Atiqul Islam on Sunday.
The Mayor came up with the remarks while attending a virtual discussion programme organized by the Save the Children.
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More than 40 organisations are working to reduce risk factors and for disaster management in the capital which is one of the most densely populated metropolitan cities of the world, Atiqul said.
Stating that “Evidently necessity of cooperation between these organisations in risk management is undoubtedly great”, the mayor assured of providing necessary assistance as per the capability of DNCC.
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He also urged all to follow the 18-point health protocols issued by the government to contain the rapid spread of Coronavirus.
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