{"id":521,"date":"2020-04-25T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2020-04-27T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:20:02","slug":"covid-19-clarification-on-mha-order-allowing-opening-of-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Covid 19-Clarification on MHA order allowing Opening of Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New delhi April 25 :-  Ministry of Home Affairs issued an Order yesterday on amendments in the consolidated revised guidelines on lockdown measures to allow opening of shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 This Order implies that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022             In rural areas, all shops, except those in shopping malls are allowed to open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022             In urban areas, all standalone shops, neighborhood shops & shops in residential complexes are allowed to open.  Shops in markets\/market complexes and shopping malls are not allowed to open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is clarified that sale by e-commerce companies will continue to be permitted for essential goods only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 It is further clarified that sale of liquor and other items continues to be prohibited as specified in the National Directives for COVID-19 management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 As specified in the consolidated revised guidelines, these shops will NOT BE PERMITTED TO OPEN in areas, whether rural or urban, which are declared as CONTAINMENT ZONES by respective States\/ UTs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on 15.04.2020, had issued an order to exempt certain activities under the consolidated revised guidelines to fight COVID-19, in certain areas not included in hotspots\/containment zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving relaxation in the category of Commercial and private establishments, MHA has issued an order to all States\/UTs, to allow opening of all shops registered under Shops & Establishment Act of respective States\/ UTs, including shops in residential complexes, neighborhood & standalone shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shops in market complexes, except those within the limits of municipal corporations and municipalities, would be allowed to open. Shops in single & multi-brand malls would not be allowed to open anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be mandatory for all permitted shops to open only with 50% strength of workers, ensure compulsory wearing of masks and strict adherence to social distancing norms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important to note that these relaxations in lockdown restrictions would not applicable in hotspots\/containment zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New delhi April 25 :-  Ministry of Home Affairs issued an Order yesterday on amendments in the consolidated revised guidelines on lockdown measures to allow opening of shops.  This Order implies that: •             In rural areas, all shops, except those in shopping malls are allowed to open. •             In urban areas, all standalone shops, neighborhood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow3p6nCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saptaswaranews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}