Team Dimapur is facing a challenging task of accommodating hundreds of returnees from various parts of the country. Y. Kikheto Sema IAS , officer in charge of Dimapur has expressed concern that hosting returnees of other districts in addition to Dimapur based returnees would lead to shortage of accommodation.
As per Nagaland Post Mr. Sema expressed concern that although no official letter had been received, the cabinet decision as per discussion at 10 am on Thursday for housing Peren and Mon returnees at Dimapur by superseding the earlier decision that returnees of these two districts would be sent to their home districts after their arrival had been communicated. Of the 1,467 passengers on board the special train from Chennai that is expected to reach here on Friday afternoon, 1075 of them will have to be quarantined in Dimapur, while the remaining 402 hailing from other districts will be transported to Kohima.
Another special train with 90 Dimapur bound passengers on board is expected between May 24 and 25 from Gurgaon.
He opined that every district had an efficient administration and district task force and hoped that they would gear up facilities to take in the stranded people of their own districts.
State government has decided to set up an Institutional Quarantine Centre for the stranded persons returning to Nagaland at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Ganeshnagar under Dimapur district.
Meanwhile, as per reports, Thahekhu Village has prepared a quarantine centre at Livingstone Higher Secondary School Dimapur to accommodate 200 returnees.