Holika Dahan programmes should have only 50 % people of the venue capacity
With the threat of the second wave of the Contagion of Covid-19 increasing, the state government has imposed many restrictions on the general public for celebrating the festival of Holi. The festival would be totally banned in the containment zones.
In an order directed to all the additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries, director general of police, secretaries, commissioner of Garhwal and Kumaon and district magistrates, the chief secretary Om Prakash said that for Holika Dahan programme the organisers should allow only 50 per cent of the people of the total capacity of the place and should refrain from collecting unnecessary crowds. People should wear masks and observe social distancing in these programmes. The elderly, children of less than ten years of age and those suffering from serious ailments should avoid participating in Holi programmes. The consumption of Alcohol and use of high decibel music systems at public places would remain banned.
The CS in his order said that the organisers of Holi Milan programmes should make arrangements of thermal scanning and sanitizers and should politely refuse entry to the people without masks and those suffering from fever or cough in the programmes. People should avoid using water and wet colours in Holi and organisers should refrain from distributing edibles in the programmes of Holi. These restrictions would remain enforced on other festivals on different dates next month.
Saturday, 27 March 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
