Registration on portal? Flyers coming to Noida unaware of it

NOIDA: Many domestic flyers returning to Gautam Budh Nagar are still clueless about the mandatory registration on the government’s Covid-19 portal before boarding a flight. RWAs have meanwhile demanded that, along with the authorities, they too should be kept in the loop about the details of such flyers so that it can be ensured the returnees follow quarantine norms. Some 15 such flyers have already returned to Gautam Budh Nagar over the past two days.
And those who returned on Tuesday too said that neither anyone from the administration had contacted them nor were they informed about the formality of Covid-19 registration by the airport authorities.
Prarambh Saxena, who works at a software company in Bengaluru, was one of those who returned to Noida via Delhi after two months. “But I did not receive any information about the registration on government portal,” the Sector 27 resident said.
Mansi Gupta, a BTech student, also returned from Bengaluru to Delhi, and subsequently, her Gaur City home. “We are aware that home isolation is required but no such information (about mandatory registration on Covid-19 portal) was provided at the airport,” her father Pankaj said.
RWAs, on the other hand, have asked the district administration to provide them information about any such persons on their return so as to keep a tab on them.
“We have seen this in previous cases of international fliers, where people hid their travel history and did not inform us at the time of returning. Moreover, it has been found that in some cases, their domestic staff have been found to be visiting other houses and roaming around the societies, which can lead to possible infection,” said Yogendra Sharma, president of FONRWA.
However, district authorities say they are themselves yet to receive data from Lucknow. “The data is being uploaded on the district's portal by authorities in Lucknow,” said district surveillance officer Dr Sunil Dohare. On the issue of self isolation, district magistrate Suhas LY said since, the government guidelines are meant for “domestic flyers”, the possibility is that people coming to Noida from places in UP via connecting flights would need home quarantine.
‘The administration will also share the details of the domestic flyers with the RWAs,” he added.