Nagaon police, responding to a Tweet on Sunday, came to the rescue of an aged couple in Nagaon’s Juria.

The couple’s son, Anupam Kakati, who is said to live in Bengal, posted on his Twitter account that there was an urgent need of some medicines for his parents who live alone in Nagaon’s Juria.

He tagged the Nagaon and Assam police’s Twitter handles.

Gaurav Abhijit Dilip, the superintendent of police, Nagaon, said immediately after they received that tweet, they acted swiftly and assured that the medicines were deployed on time.

The medicines were delivered by assistant superintendent of police Saurabh Gupta personally within an hour.

Apart from this, the police also ensured that two youths from Nagaon’s Christian Patty who were stranded here reached their homes safely on Sunday.

Both the youths, who came for a project on March 24, were stuck in Guwahati since the lockdown was imposed.

On Saturday night, one of the youth’s brother had a panic and anxiety attack and they had to leave for Nagaon urgently.

They contacted the Nagaon superintendent of police to ask if they could travel to Nagaon immediately.

The superintendent of police then advised them to inform the local police station here about their travel to maintain the protocol.

On Sunday, Dispur police allowed them to travel by road.

Gaurav Abhijit Dilip said the police will ensure that the youths reach their homes safely as it was the responsibility of the police to ensure that no citizen faces any trouble.

Dhubri police personnel are doing their bit through a noble initiative, Helping Hand, that has started to deliver essential supplies like medicines to the senior citizens at their doorsteps so they do not have to venture out much and also providing help in case of medical emergency to elderly people and pregnant women.

To avail of this facility, people have to send a proper address with contact number of the person in need of help, including the prescriptions via WhatsApp to the mobile number 8638100724, said the police.

Trinayan Bhuyan, the deputy superintendent of police (headquarters), Dhubri, said, “Among other issues we have noticed problems faced by elderly people and pregnant women during the lockdown period, who urgent needs to be under medical supervision and it becomes more vital when their closet of support base say son/daughter or spouse are lockdown elsewhere or busy playing their role in the fight against Covid-19.”

“Our small gestures make life a little easier for senior citizens; we are doing it as part of our social responsibility. The police has so far been received as many as 10 distress calls asking for essentials,” he added.

Gopal Kar said, “I am posted at Bongaigaon but due to the lockdown, I could not go out and give medicines to my parents who live alone in Sapatgram of Dhubri district. My mother is suffering from chronic diseases and she was in urgent need of some life-saving drugs on a daily basis. I sent a message to Helping Hand with details and my parents received the same after a few hours.”

“There was a time when we used to be scared of calling the police, but now we treat him as our family members, “he added.

Dhubri has two positive cases of Covid-19 and accordingly the district administration and police have been monitoring the situation round the clock.

Additional reporting by Mukesh Kumar Singh in Dhubri