COVID-19 Effect: Punjab Police and Staqu join hands to ensure easy movement of essential services

During the current lockdown period, Punjab police along with Staqu has come up with a simple yet innovative solution to help delivery personnel to bring essential goods and commodities to the customers. While the mobility of essential service providers have been challenged amidst lockdown and the police authorities are finding it challenging to verify the authorized personnel, Staqu, a tech start-up has solved the process by digitizing the curfew pass.

Amidst 21 days lockdown, only those engaged with medical, safety, pharma, food and supply departments are allowed to move out of the house and every one of these persons need to carry a valid government issued Curfew Pass to commute.

In this Endeavor, Staqu has powered with the government of Punjab to ease the process of application and approval of these passes. The passes are also “color coded” and “letster codded” in accordance to the government guidelines to ensure easier visibility thus maintaining the social distancing norms.

Speaking on the development, DGP, Punjab Police Mr. Dinkar Gupta, “Punjab Police wants to make sure that the people do not face any kind of hardships in these testing times. These passes are integral and will assist everybody from a doctor to the people who are delivering groceries at people's doorsteps. Working with startups like Staqu, we have also added QR code tech on the passes to ease the download and verification process. All applications will go to the district headquarters of the areas applied in rather than the central head office to ensure quickness in approvals”.

Earlier, Staqu had utilized its AI expertise in launching AI-driven thermal camera to detect body temperature. The cameras have been installed at various hot-spots, offering the first-level, contact-less screening of the crowd and informing the authorities of a possible case of COVID-19. The fast-growing start-up is pulling all stops to help the nation fight against this global pandemic.

“As a nation and as global citizens, we are faced with unprecedented challenging times. Such global crisis requires people across all sectors to come together and come up with effective solutions to everyday challenges being faced under a lockdown. To that measure, we are glad to partner with the Punjab Police department to ensure that all the safety protocols of Curfew Travel are in place and the required passes are issued without human contact. We hope that e-curfew passes braced with QR Codes, letter and color coding will help in the mobility of essential goods and services providers. We shall continue to strive and come up with more innovative product and solution to aid measures aimed at stopping this pandemic,” added Atul Rai, Co-Founder, Staqu.