A high level meeting was held today morning with Chief Secretaries of all the States by the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. All the Chief Secretaries informed that there is overwhelming and spontaneous response to the call for Janta Curfew given by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister.<\/p>\n
In view of the need to contain the spread of COVID 19, it was agreed that there is urgent need to extend the restrictions on the movement of non-essential passenger transport including inter-state transport buses till 31st<\/sup>\u00a0March 2020.<\/p>\n Following detailed discussions, the State Governments were advised to issue appropriate orders to allow only essential services to operate in the 75 districts which have reported confirmed cases or casualties relating to COVID 19.\u00a0 The State Governments may expand the list depending on their assessment of the situation.\u00a0 It was noted that several State Governments have already issued orders in this regard.<\/p>\n Decisions:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n The following important decisions were taken:<\/p>\n Cabinet Secretary reviews COVID-19 status with Chief Secretaries of States; important decisions taken to check the disease A high level meeting was <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":227253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[40145,40146,40012,39924,40144,40147],"class_list":["post-227440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-75-districts","tag-cabinet-secretary","tag-corona-virus","tag-covid-19","tag-essential-services","tag-janta-curfew"],"yoast_head":"\n\n