Delhi cops to carry masks for suspects

NEW DELHI : All investigating officers of the Delhi Police must carry extra masks and hand sanitisers and give these to suspects before arresting them . The new rules issued by police commissioner SN Shrivastava also makes it mandatory to sanitise all anti-riot gear such as canes, batons and barricades before they are used for crowd control measures. The traffic have been told to insist on digital payments for traffic violation fines.

Shrivastava said all personnel must follow these rules as the force is now back to focusing on crime prevention and detection duties.with the lockdown norms eased, markets have opened and traffic resumed in the national capital. A new set of rules and regulations have been set in place for the police personnel across the city to follow until the threat of the Covid-19 ceases to exist.

Until last Monday, there were few relaxations and only citizens working with essential services were allowed on the roads.

NO DUTIES, CHALLANS COLLECTED

Other losses incurred include additional excise duty of ₹60 lakh; fee of around ₹7 lakh from road cuts, which is required to lay sewer and water pipes; challan fee of polythene, which is around ₹3 lakh; and building application fee, which comes to around ₹10 lakh for two months.

On account of property tax, residents have just paid ₹10 lakh, which should have been ₹2 crore instead; water bill paid is only ₹5 lakh instead of ₹20 lakh. Every month, Mohali MC spends ₹5 crore on paying salaries, power bills, fuel charges, and maintaining cleanliness in the city.

At present, the civic body is just left with savings of ₹22 crore to meet with various expenditures. MC chief Kamal Kishore Garg said, “It is a nationwide crisis and we have suffered a huge loss. We have asked the state government for funds to carry out development works.” Meanwhile, more than 200 tenders of development works worth ₹30 crore have not been allotted.