Bengaluru, Apr 22: The Karnataka government has announced partial relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown norms in the state allowing certain construction activities, manufacturing of packaging materials, courier services, among others, from April 23.
The activities will be permitted only outside the COVID-19 containment zones identified by the government.
Service provided by self-employed people like electrician, IT repair, plumbers, motor mechanics, and carpenters in local areas have also been given exemption.
Tea, coffee and rubber plantation have been allowed to work with 50 per cent workforce, and a similar exemption have been given to processing, packaging, sale and marketing of these produce.
“To mitigate hardship to the public, select additional activities have been allowed,which will come into effect from 00.00 hours of April 23,” Chief Secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar said in an order on Wednesday.
However, these additional activities will be operationalised by District Administrations and BBMP (city corporation in the case of Bengaluru city) based on strict compliance to the guidelines on lockdown measures, it said.
Before operating these relaxations, district administrations and BBMP (city corporation) shall ensure that all the preparatory arrangements on social distancing in offices, work place establishments as also sectoral requirements are in place, it said, adding that relaxations will not apply in containment zones.
Facing a financial crunch, the state government has been eager to kick-start economic activities in the state that had come to halt due to the coronavirus lockdown.
While hospitality services, bars, malls, theatres, shopping complexes, religious and places of worship among others will continue to remain shut, relaxation of norms has been for activities that are linked to essential services such as health, infrastructure and agriculture.
As per the order, while, public transportation will continue to remain suspended till May 3,private vehicles with passes for emergency services and personnel commuting with passes to places of work and back will be allowed.
Activities permitted include construction of roads, irrigation projects, buildings and all kinds of industrial projects, including MSMEs, in rural areas and all kinds of projects in industrial estates, where workers are available on site and no one is required to be brought in from outside.
Also permitted to function are manufacturing units of essential goods – drugs, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, their raw materials and intermediates;
food processing industries in rural areas, coal production (mines and mineral production and activities incidental to mining) besides manufacturing units of packaging materials.
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They broken their Pitha's Leg!!!!????
Merciless goons, Terrorists.
A day will come when this horse will do the same to U over & over... it might be wierd but in the court of ALLAH (one who gave this life to this MLA & the horse)... it can take the revenge.
what is the use of putting him in jail. he might be there for few days in jail with royal treatment. and once he come out from the jail i am sure he will get good post in party.
When BJP saffron goons cannot spare a animal, how can they spare Muslims. The act of atrocities are in their DNA.
Down Down Ganesh Joshi.
Poor Horse. Cruel People.. Where is our Madam Menaka Ghandi...Lets see what action she will take on him.
These Goons are worst than animal... How come our people who support them doesnot UNDERSTAND their evil acts.
PLEASE BREAK MLA,S LEG PLEASE.. ,
IF HE WAS IN FRONT OF MY EYES I WOULD HAVE SLAPPED HIM FOR SURE .. NO HUMANITY.. WHAT TYPE OF MLA HE IS.. KICK OUT OF INDIA.. IF U SEE THE LEG OF HORSE ,,, REALY... PUT HIM IN JAIL.
wht the hell! then I think his leg should also be broken with a stick. then he will come to know about the pain
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