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Updated: May 4, 2020 7:14:19 am
A worker paints circles outside a liquor store to ensure distance, on Mohali Sunday. (Express photo by Jasbir Malhi)
MAHARASHTRA: Shops to open in Mumbai, Pune
Liquor stores, electronics stores, mobile phone stores and stationeries will be able to reopen in Mumbai and Pune starting Monday. The state has limited the total of “nonessential” and “independent” stores that can reopen on any lane or street in these cities to five. These relaxations will not be applicable to the containment zones in these metropolitan areas. “All independent (individual) stores, neighborhood stores (colonia) and stores in residential complexes, without distinction of essential and non-essential, may remain open in urban areas, excluding containment areas,” the state government ordered the Sunday. set.
The state special tax department has issued a notice allowing retail liquor stores to remain open from 10 am to 6 pm in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and the municipal corporations of Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and Malegaon. Construction projects are also allowed in these regions if they have made accommodation arrangements for workers on the site. The stores in the orange and green zones will remain open.
GUJARAT No relaxation in red zones until May 17
Gujarat said Sunday that the blockade will continue to be strictly enforced in municipal corporate areas of Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Gandhinagar and Bhavnagar, designated as red zones, and in Rajkot until May 17. In these areas, store openings will not be allowed. except for those who provide essential goods. Similar rules will apply to six municipalities in the state: Botad, Bopal, Khambhat, Bareja, Godhra and Umreth, which are in the red zone.
Migrant workers on a special train in Uttar Pradesh.
The government decided to resume some services in the orange and green areas. Hairdressers, beauty salons, haircut salons and tea / coffee stands will be allowed to open. Taxi / taxi services will also be allowed in these areas. However, the number of passengers per taxi is limited to two. In green areas, the government also decided to allow Gujarat State Highway Transportation Corporation (GSRTC) buses to operate at 50 percent of passenger capacity. Stores that sell tobacco and liquor products will be closed until May 17.
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The government has allowed conditional resumption of industrial activity in the Junagadh and Jamnagar municipal corporation areas along with 156 municipalities.
ASSAM: Night curfew, curbs in green areas
The Assam government announced the statewide nightly curfew from 6 pm to 6 am starting Monday. Four districts out of 33 are in the orange zone, while the rest are in the green category.
Independent stores will be able to open until 5pm in green areas, while in places where the stores are adjacent to each other, only a third can open in one day. “In areas where there are adjacent stores, at least two stores will be guaranteed to be closed between two open stores, except pharmacies, supermarkets and bookstores … Market complexes and shopping malls will remain closed,” said a government order. Hats and bazaars will remain closed.
Supply of essential items to residents of the containment zone in sector 30 through CTU buses with health workers using PPE kits. Express photo of Jasbir Malhi
Government and private green space offices can operate from Monday with 50 percent employees. However, employees in the public and private sectors, with children under the age of five, are not allowed to attend the office until May 17. Restaurants may only operate for takeout orders.
Automatic rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, and taxis can operate with one driver and two passengers, while private four-wheelers are allowed with one driver and two other passengers. “Hairdressers, salons and salons will continue to be closed. However, home visits by barbers would be allowed …
A gasoline pump attendant wears personal protective equipment while filling gasoline in New Delhi on Thursday. Express photo of Tashi Tobgyal
UTTAR PRADESH: Shopping centers, closed transportation in red zones
According to guidelines issued by the state government on Sunday, subway trains, schools, colleges, hospitality services, gyms, movie theaters and shopping malls will remain closed in the red light district. Sports activities and public gatherings will not be allowed in these areas. However, commercial activity will resume in much of the state. Work can be restarted in special economic zones and export-oriented units, as well as in industrial cities. In addition, IT hardware units and supply chains, which include essential goods, medicines, medical equipment, and other manufacturing units, can also go live.
Except for people in essential services, no one will be allowed to cross the state border between 7 pm and 7 am. The excise department may allow independent liquor stores to open from 10 a.m. at 7 p.m. –(ENS, Mumbai, Guwahati, Ahmedabad, Lucknow)
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