The Delhi government on Wednesday asked officials to take “strict penal action” against landlords who have been forcing doctors and paramed...
The Delhi government on Wednesday asked officials to take “strict penal action” against landlords who have been forcing doctors and paramedics to vacate from residential colonies over fears of contracting the novel coronavirus, PTI reported.
In a notification, the government gave power to zonal deputy commissioners to take action and said such behaviour “not only strikes at the root of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic but also tantamount to obstruction of duty of essential services”.
The government invoked the Delhi Epidemics Diseases, Covid-19 Regulations, and said district magistrates, zonal deputy commissioners of municipal corporations and the deputy commissioner of police are “directed to take strict penal action against such landlords and house owners under the relevant provisions of law”.
The officials have also been asked to submit their Action Taken Report on a daily basis in the matter.
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The decision was taken after the Resident Doctors’ Association of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences sought the government’s intervention to take action against eviction of healthcare professionals by landlords. In a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the doctors’ body said there had been several instances of doctors and nurses being evicted by house...
