Assam Government on Thursday constituted a committee to bring back stranded people because of COVID-19 lockdown to State in phased manner.
The committee will formulate SoP for bringing back migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other persons stranded at different places.
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Additional DGP of Law and order, G P Singh will head the committee.
The other members include Harmeet Singh, ADGP (Security); A S Manivannan, CEO, ASDMA; A P Tiwari, MD, ASTC; Dr Laxmanan S, MD NHM and Adil Hussain, commissioner, Transport.
G P Singh has been entrusted as the nodal officer for the entire exercise of bringing back people from other states.
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Harmeet Singh is the alternate nodal officer.
This was decided in a meeting of the State Level Empowered Committee, COVID-19 on Thursday.
The committee also decided that text book shops shall be allowed to remain open from 10 am to 5 pm from Monday to Saturday.
The committee also decided that for intra-state movement of stranded people, the Transport department shall arrange buses from ASTC and the expenditure for the same shall be borne by NHM.