Kolkata: Over 300 Tablighi Jamaat members have been placed under quarantine in Haj Tower–Cum–Empowerment Centre in Rajarhat.
Following the instructions from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal State Haj Committee has started offering all the treatment and quarantine services to help Tablighi Jamaat members stranded in different places across the state from April 1 due to lockdown.
"At present, 304 Tablighi Jamaat members (including attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat meet in Delhi) have been placed under quarantine in Haj Tower–Cum–Empowerment Centre in Rajarthat. Every day, the doctors are coming in their scheduled time and checking the patients," said Md Naqui, executive officer of West Bengal State Haj Committee.
While 71 people who visited Markaz Nizamuddin are being quarantined, an employee of one of the contractors of Kolkata Port
Trust who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat meet in Nizamuddin in the national capital and returned to the state on March 24, tested COVID-19 positive at Haldia in East Midnapore.
At present, Tablighi Jamaat members who are stranded in mosques at different places are giving their detailed information to the respective police stations. The police officials are then sending their information to Nabanna.
After proper scrutiny by the police station and Nabanna, the Tablighi Jamaat members are being sent to Haj Tower–Cum–Empowerment Centre.
"We are providing free fooding and lodging facilities to those people who have been placed under quarantine in Haj Tower–Cum–Empowerment Centre. After the successful completion of the quarantine period, they will be safely sent to their homes. Under the instructions of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal State Haj Committee chairman Nadimul Haque and all the officials are monitoring the situation round the clock," said Ejaz Ahmed, media coordinator of West Bengal State Haj Committee.