Chandigarh Administration issues standard operating procedures for Covid volunteers
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 24
For the enforcement of the Covid-19 guidelines, the UT Administration has issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for volunteers and NGOs.
An order issued by District Magistrate Mandip Singh Brar stated that the volunteers, NGOs, volunteer organisations and other associations willing to work as Authorised Covid Volunteers (ACV) have to register themselves with the SDM concerned by submitting an application on the email-id of the respective SDM.
A list of individual volunteers, if found suitable, will be compiled by the office of the SDM concerned for ready deployment, in case of any need. The NGOs, RWAs, volunteer organisations, and other associations should prepare a plan and duty chart for their societies or RWAs and submit the same with the application to the SDM concerned, states the order.
The SDM will take the views of the police and the SDPO concerned to decide on these applications. If any changes are made by the SDM in the proposed plan, the same will be abided by the applicants.
Every registered volunteer will be referred as ACV and every ACV must himself get screened by a team of the Health Department.
These ACVs will only assist the police and the administration. They will not be allowed to perform any official duty. None of these registered ACVs, NGOs, RWAs and other associations will be allowed to seal main road (entry or exit points) by barricading, etc, at their own level.
Authorised Volunteers to register with SDM
An order issued by District Magistrate Mandip Singh Brar states that volunteers, NGOs, volunteer organisations and other associations willing to work as Authorised Covid Volunteers (ACV) have to register themselves by submitting an application on the email-id of the respective SDM. These ACVs will only work under the supervision of the local police and the Administration and strictly as per the approved plan and duty chart. In case, the conduct of any ACV is found improper, the same will be removed immediately.
