NAROWAL: Officials at various places have failed to ensure implementation of coronavirus SOPs which is quite evident from the instance of mismanagement at the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) office.

Scores of people daily visit the office on Circular Road to apply for CNICs or B Form or collect these on due date but a visit to it showed people throwing caution to the wind by neither wearing masks nor maintaining distance in queues. The officials failed to ensure compliance with the SOPs.

Many women carried their children and exposed them to dual threat of the virus and cold while jostling for their turn. As entry to the office is strictly banned, a vehicle has also been parked outside the office to facilitate the customers.

Ayesha Batool and Iram Shahzadi questioned the double standards of the district administration which, they said, had made a mockery of efforts to control spread of Covid-19. They demanded that Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and others should take notice of the situation.

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2020