Two grooms stuck as Odisha curbs entry from West Bengal

State govt. imposed mandatory 14-day quarantine amid rising COVID cases

A day after the Odisha government announced a , tensions ran high at various entry points, with people trying to sneak-in through the porous border. Odisha’s two districts — Baleswar (Balasore) and Mayurbhanj — border West Bengal. While the Baleswar administration has identified 44 roads through which visitors from West Bengal could enter Odisha, Mayurbhanj had 34 such entry points. At the Udayapur border check post, tension prevailed for an hour with people demanding immediate entry into Odisha. They alleged that as the “Odisha government had started a blockade at border in the morning after declaring 14-days of mandatory quarantine just hours earlier in the night, people who wanted to return home could not cope with new system at short notice.”