Cops planning doorstep book delivery in Nagpur so you stay at home

Soumitra Bose | TNN | Updated: Apr 23, 2020, 09:55 IST

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NAGPUR: The city police seem to be putting the best of their creative minds at work in enforcing the lockdown after the strict measures to keep people within their houses had to be withdrawn.
The latest is a plan by DCP, traffic and headquarters, Vikram Sali to deliver books to readers at the doorsteps, if the latest ministry of home affairs (MHA) guidelines help open up libraries and book stores.
Sali is contemplating doorstep delivery of books to ensure book-lovers prefer to spend time at home rather than stepping out. The DCP said the concept is at planning stage. “We will try to speak to libraries and pick up books from them as per the choice of the readers, and deliver it to them,” he said. “Let the citizen tell us which books they would love to read, and we can try to get the same delivered,” he said.
The city has around 78 state-run and 15 civic body administered libraries, which are closed due to the lockdown. The latest MHA guidelines regarding bookstores seems to have kindled hope among some of the senior cops that this could be used as an opportunity to make citizens nurture their reading habits instead of walking out or gathering outside for chit-chat.
Sali had also celebrated the birthday of a youngster a couple of days ago after he made a call to the control room seeking permission to meet friends on his special day and celebrate it. “We had got a birthday cake delivered through our senior inspector of traffic Parag Pote at his place, and made him happy,” he said.
Earlier, even crime branch had celebrated the birthday of a teacher at Hindustan Colony and also taken the opportunity to create awareness among neighbours regarding social distancing and following lockdown norms.