BIRATNAGAR: A meeting of the State-1 Coronavirus Prevention and Treatment Steering Committee has decided to ensure smooth supply of daily consumer goods and services.
The meeting has formed a 13-member district level supply system monitoring, facilitation and control committee in all the districts for smooth supply of daily consumables from one district to another in the context of the lockdown in effect in the country in view of the COVID-19 pandemic threat.
Assistant District Officer of each district is the coordinator of this committee.
The meeting has also decided that the related committees will monitor the production, stock and supply of goods in the district, and inform the Steering Committee about the situation.
The meeting also decided to request the Municipalities’ Federation and the Rural Municipalities’ Federation to collect the data regarding the economically poor and needy families in all the districts of the State and make the same available to the Steering Committee.
It has also decided to request the big supermarkets to make arrangements for the sale and distribution of daily essentials by mobile vans at this time of lockdown.
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