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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Damn sure. he misused power. He threatened. Not her fault
Sad incident. i feel something is wrong. why will she escape from the hospital
police should do proper investigation.
Policemen needs bigger punishment than ordinary people. Dont they have ethics
Policemen needs bigger punishment than ordinary people. Dont they have ethics
Shame on you chinnappa. You uttered a typical Indian mentality of judging the woman when she suffers a rape
Looks like she moved out at her free will and faced such consequence. her fault
Need to change punishment system. We need something that arise fear to repeat. like chopping head publicly
so many grey areas are there.. such as hospitals, offices, schools, police station. need to have something emotionless creature.. robots or something else inorder to keep safe our sisters
What is the difference between RSS and ISS, R and I? R for Rowdy, I for Intelligence, so Rowdy and Criminal is equal so do not compare, Criminal is Criminal, Intelligence is Intelligence.
Woman is safe in India during Modi rule (if i say woman is unsafe under Modi rule, i will be called an anti-national)
A woman was gang raped and later she went missing. But people here are fighting with each other in the name of ISIS, RSS, ISI.. shame on you people.
wow ! naren kotian what a brilliant statement........... you should join FBI better hhhhhhhhaaaaaaa...
Dear Mr. NAren... How exactly you know that? You must be a member of RAW or ISI or ISIS or RSS I guess.
ISIS or its associate in India RSS must be behind raping this innocent girl. Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) head SIMON ELLIOT (fake name Abu Bakr Baghdadi), Jewish actor trained by MOSSAD in terrorism and the same MOSSAD has been associated in training RSS - terrorists.
ISIS hand cannot be ruled out. people belonging to one particular community do all criminal activities posing as different people. Here they dressed like police and committed crime.
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