{"id":26456,"date":"2020-05-31T23:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/dist-admin-srinagar-announces-relaxations-in-covid-19-restrictions-for-businesses\/"},"modified":"2020-05-31T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T17:31:21","slug":"dist-admin-srinagar-announces-relaxations-in-covid-19-restrictions-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=26456","title":{"rendered":"Dist admin Srinagar announces relaxations in COVID-19 restrictions for businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> The district administration Srinagar on Sunday announced relaxations in prevailing COVID-19 lockdown for business activities in the district valid till June 8 or as may be revised by concerned authorities.<br \/>Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary tweeted this evening that the administration has allowed e-Commerce and courier services to operate in the district besides allowing ITES companies to operate with 33 percent staff.<br \/>The administration has also allowed industry with specific permissions for units. However it shall be mandatory for the allowed businesses to follow protocols of safety, hygiene and social distancing.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The businesses will also have to do testing of key staff in the prioritized service sector.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Handloom &amp; Handicrafts sector has also been allowed to operate with a permissible limit of 5 workers for home workshops. Handloom and handicraft centres and units shall be allowed to operate as per proposal of departments.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The businesses have also been asked to provide Masks to the workers.<br \/>Agriculture, Horticulture and allied farm activities have also been permitted to operate.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choudhary said that 30 percent essential grocery stores, vegetable and fruit shops shall be allowed to operate as per the pre-devised roster by market associations in consultation with zonal committees from 11 am till 5 pm except Red\/Containment Zones.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rural development and panchayat works will be carried out as per the standard operating procedure, he said.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also asked to maintain proper hygiene at the grocery stores.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choudhary said that machine repair workshops and will be allowed to operate with maximum 5 workers permissible limit.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diagnostic labs will also be allowed to reopen with permitted staff strength, he said.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for wedding ceremonies, the DC said only around 30 members will be allowed to assemble, but the mandatory precautions on social distancing will have to be followed and only after a proper permission from the district administration in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: The district administration Srinagar on Sunday announced relaxations in prevailing COVID-19 lockdown for business activities in the district valid till June 8 or as may be revised by concerned authorities.Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary tweeted this evening that the administration has allowed e-Commerce and courier services to operate in the district besides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26456","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=26456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}