Chandigarh, March 26 -- Punjab Government has decided to weed out COVID-19 by seeking help at grassroot level. To track the nearly 64,000 "missing" NRIs who landed in Punjab in the recent days, and those who attended Holla Mohalla, the State Government has directed the sarpanches or nambardars in villages to provide information.
The sarpanches and nambardars have been asked to provide detailed information of all residents in their respective villages, who would have travelled abroad after March 1 or who would have received relatives from abroad.
That was not all! They have been asked to also find out the number of persons who visited Hola Mohalla festival at Sri Anandpur Sahib, where the Banga-based COVID 19 patient, who died on March 18,...