Delhi will be lock-down from 23rd march 2020 to 31st march 2020
The Government of NCT Delhi has issued the Delhi Epidemic Disease, COVID-19 Regulations, 2020 under the Epidemic Disease Act 1897 for the prevention and contaminated of COVID-19.
In exercise of the aforesaid powers, it is hereby notified that a lock-down in the whole of territorial jurisdiction of NCT of Delhi from 06:00 am on Monday, 23rd March 2020 to midnight of Tuesday, 31st March 2020, stipulating the following instructions:
- No Public Transport services including operation of private buses, taxis, auto-rickshaws etc. shall be permitted. Only DTC buses shall operate at not more than 25% capacity to cater to personnel engaged in essential services.
- All shops, commercial establishments, factories, workshops, offices, godowns, weekly bazaars etc. shall close their operations.
- The motorable and unmotorable borders of NCT of Delhi with the neighbouring states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh shall be sealed.
- Movement of Inter-State buses/ trains/ metro(DMRC) shall be suspended.
- All domestic/ international flights arriving to Delhi during this period shall be suspended.
- Construction activity of any kind shall be suspended.
- All religious places of any denomination shall be closed.
- People are required to stay at home and come out only for basic service (as enumerated below) within the vicinity of their residences while strictly following the social distancing guidelines issued earlier.
However, the following services/establishments are excluded from the purview of this order and shall continue to function normally:
- Offices charged with law and order and magisterial duties
- Police
- Health
- Fire
- Prisons
- Fair Price Shops (Public Distribution System)
- Electricity
- Water
- Municipal Services
- Activities related to functioning of Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- Pay and Accounts office ( only for salary/ wages/ contingent/ health and essential services related expenditure)
- Print and Electronic media
- Cashier/ Teller operations of banks (including ATMs)
- Telecom, Internet, and Postal services
- E-commerce of all essential goods including food, pharmaceutical and medical equipments
- Food items, groceries (fruits/ vegetables/ milk/ bakery items, meat, fish etc.)
- Milk plants
- General Provisions stores
- Take away/ home delivery in restaurants
- Chemists and Pharmacies
- Petrol Pumps, LPG/ Oil agencies (including their godown and transportation – related activites)
- Animal Fodder
- Manufacturing, Processing, Transportation, Distribution, storage, trade/commerce and logistics related to all above services/establishments and commodities required for delivery of these above services.
- Any other essential service/ establishment that may be exempted by the government.
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