{"id":23774,"date":"2020-04-15T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T05:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/mha-new-guidelines-on-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T05:21:18","slug":"mha-new-guidelines-on-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23774","title":{"rendered":"MHA new guidelines on lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a set of detailed guidelines for state governments and general public to follow during the lockdown till May 3.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/govt-mha-issues-detailed-guidelines-on-lockdown-1667092-2020-04-15\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State\/UT govts shall not dilute lockdown guidelines in any manner; may impose stricter measures as per local requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exemptions given from April 20 will not be applicable in COVID-19 hotspots or containment zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Services provided by self-employed electricians, IT repairs, plumbers, motor mechanics, carpenters to be allowed from April 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grocery stores, fruit, vegetables shops or carts, milk booths, poultry, meat and fish shops to remain open during lockdown.<br \/>Wearing of masks compulsory in public places across country in wake of COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highway &#8216;dhabas&#8217;, truck repairing shops, call centres for govt activities to remain open from April 20: MHA guidelines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manufacturing units of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, construction of medical infrastructure to remain open from Apr 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shops of farm machinery, its spare parts, supply chain, repairs, &#8216;Custom Hiring Centres&#8217; related to machinery to remain open from Apr 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From April 20 activities permitted include agricultural, horticultural, farming, procurement of agri products, &#8216;mandis&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All social, political, sports, religious functions, religious places, places of worship shall be closed for public till May 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cinema halls, malls, shopping complexes, gymnasiums, sports complexes, swimming pools, bars to remain closed till May 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Educational institutions, coaching centres, domestic, international air travel, train services to remain suspended till May 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inter-state, inter-district movement of people, metro, bus services continue to be prohibited till May 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Industries operating in rural areas to be permitted to run from April 30 with strict social distancing norms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a set of detailed guidelines for state governments and general public to follow during the lockdown till May 3. PTI State\/UT govts shall not dilute lockdown guidelines in any manner; may impose stricter measures as per local requirements. Exemptions given from April 20 will not be applicable in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}