{"id":30768,"date":"2020-08-04T23:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30768"},"modified":"2020-08-04T23:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:24:35","slug":"places-of-worship-to-open-in-jk-on-august-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30768","title":{"rendered":"Places of worship to open in JK on August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11698870_Places-of-worship-to-open-in-JK-on-August-16.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday decided to open religious premises and places of worship from August 16 but extended other standard operating procedures for COVID-19 containment till August 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Major decision by J&amp;K Government. All religious places and places of worship to open in Jammu &amp; Kashmir from August 16, 2020. Religious processions and large religious gatherings remain strictly prohibited,&#8221; government spokesperson Rohit Kansal said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an order issued by the chief secretary, a separate SOP will be issued for opening of religious places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the administration has declared all districts of Kashmir except Bandipora as red zones while Ramban is the only district in Jammu division to be included in this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doda and Kishtwar districts are placed in green zones while rest of the seven districts in Jammu region and Bandipora district have been categorised as orange zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has asked the people to follow the SOPs for respective zones or face penal action in case of any violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red zones are the ones with a large number of coronavirus cases while the orange zones have lesser positive cases. A green zone is one that has not reported any COVID-19 positive case in 28 days.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Tuesday decided to open religious premises and places of worship from August 16 but extended other standard operating procedures for COVID-19 containment till August 31. &#8220;Major decision by J&amp;K Government. All religious places and places of worship to open in Jammu &amp; Kashmir from August 16, 2020. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30768","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\/30768","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=30768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}