Mumbai: With Section 144 imposed throughout Maharashtra as a part of stringent curbs in the course of the 15-day strict curfew aimed to defeat the rise in novel coronavirus circumstances, listed below are guidelines to be adopted and exemptions granted in the course of the interval.
This comes as Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday introduced robust restrictions than these in place since April 6 for the following 15 days, together with a ban on gatherings and solely important actions to interrupt the chain of infections.
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Rules & Exemptions Amid 15-Day Curfew:
- All institutions, public locations, actions, providers, shall stay closed and no person will go to public locations with no legitimate cause
- Services and actions talked about in important class are exempted from the order
- They are additionally exempted from 7 a.m. to eight p.m. on working days and their motion, operations will stay unrestricted
- Essential providers like groceries, vegetable outlets, fruit distributors, dairies, bakeries, confectioneries, all kinds of meals retailers and public utilities might be open
- Public transport, together with trains and bus providers, might be open
- People have been requested to comply with social distancing norms, use face masks and observe state authorities’s instructions
- Shooting for movies, serials and ads will stay closed
- Divisional ACPs, zonal DCPs and regional Additional Commissioners of Police are empowered to grant exemption, permission in case of emergency and particular case
- Violators might be punished underneath Section 188 of the IPC along with penal provisions underneath Epidemic Diseases Act, National Disaster Management Act
The order, which got here into impact at eight p.m. on Wednesday, will stay legitimate until 7 a.m. on May 1.
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During a press convention, Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Pandey knowledgeable {that a} complete of two lakh police personnel from Maharashtra Police might be on the streets of Maharashtra to implement the lockdown.
Maharashtra, which is the worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, alone accounts for 43.54 % of the nation’s complete energetic caseload. The state right this moment recorded 9,925 contemporary Covid-19 circumstances.
