The Jammu and Kashmir Government today issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for regulating the movement of stranded migrant workers, students and others to and from outside the Union Territory.
Principal Secretary Home, Shaleen Kabra has been appointedas nodal officer of Jammu and Kashmir for the movement of stranded persons andhe will coordinate with nodal officers of others Sates for the movement ofstranded people, reads the order of Department of Disaster Management, ReliefRehabilitation and Reconstruction.
The order has categorically clarified that inward andoutward movements will be undertaken only with the prior permission of theNodal Officer of Jammu and Kashmir or those designated by him.
“Any person arriving at the border without permission of thenodal officer of J&K will be put under administrative quarantine for 21days at Lakhanpur,” reads the order with strict directions to the officials notto allow any one without permission.
Besides, no one from red zones, districts or hot-spot willbe allowed to enter without the prior permission of Nodal Officer of the UT oras part of an organised movement by the Nodal Officer of J&K.