Chandigarh Administration has ordered for relaxation of Curfew from 10 am to 6 pm from Saturday.

Chandigarh Administration has ordered for relaxation of Curfew from 10 am to 6 pm for eight hours from Saturday.

This was decided by the UT administration on Friday night to allow one person from every house to walk to a market close by during relaxation to buy essential food items and medicines. Grocery, chemist, vegetable and meat shops will be open in all the city.

The decision will come as a great relief to residents who have, ever since the clampdown was imposed on March 24, been struggling with long queues, uncertainty over supplies and hiked prices of essential items as the administration couldn’t deliver on its promise of bringing essential supplies at their doorsteps.

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UP Administrator, VPS Badnore has decided to allow for relaxations in curfew. Like in other states, shops of essential items like food, medicine, and gas will remain open,” said UT adviser Manoj Kumar Parida. The steps have been taken In the wake of the hardships being faced by city residents

Police will seize the vehicles in case the people will come out to the markets on their vehicles.
Movement of people without curfew passes will be allowed only to shops close by. Strict action will be taken as per law against people found roaming around needlessly,” said Parida.

Requesting the elderly not to leave their homes, Parida said door-to-door services, including CTU buses with vegetables, will continue to run.
Home deliveries will continue in areas where there are no markets and cooked food for the poor will be provided by the administration.
Giving clarification on the relaxation of the curfew UT officials clarified that relaxations had been allowed to enable people to procure essential items from their local markets.

To ensure unhindered supply chain of essential goods and services, all vehicles carrying and engaged in the transportation of food items, medicines, ATM cash vans LPG and oil tankers will be allowed to move freely.

Executive magistrates and special executive magistrates will be deployed to work as incident commanders in their respective local jurisdictions and be responsible to implement all the containment measures.

Suggest the citizens of the city to avoiding congestion in markets, vehicles will not be permitted.

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