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nutrition support to children, women, lactating mothers by Anganwadi workers<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0medical services &amp; drug manufacturing under AYUSH category<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/164.100.117.97\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/HS%20Letter%20on%20clarifications%20on%20AYUSH,%20Anganwadi%20and%20direct%20marketing%20of%20agricultural%20produce.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here to see Communication to States with specific details of exempt categories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Ministry of Home Affairs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">[Press Release dt. 02-04-2020]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">[Source: PIB]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to queries being raised with regard to exemption of specific services under the Consolidated Guidelines on lockdown measures to fight <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[40423,40424,30064,39924,40422,40154],"class_list":["post-227866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-agricultural-produce","tag-anganwadi-workers","tag-ayush","tag-covid-19","tag-exemption-of-services","tag-lockdown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID 19 | Exemption to specific services related to -- Agri-produce Marketing, Anganwadi Workers and AYUSH from Lockdown Restrictions\u00a0 | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/04\/03\/covid-19-exemption-to-specific-services-related-to-agri-produce-marketing-anganwadi-workers-and-ayush-from-lockdown-restrictions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID 19 | Exemption to specific services related to -- Agri-produce Marketing, Anganwadi Workers and AYUSH from Lockdown Restrictions\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In response to queries being raised with regard to exemption of specific services under the Consolidated Guidelines on lockdown measures to fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/04\/03\/covid-19-exemption-to-specific-services-related-to-agri-produce-marketing-anganwadi-workers-and-ayush-from-lockdown-restrictions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-03T07:30:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-05T04:43:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ministry-of-Home-Affairs.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"887\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/03\\\/covid-19-exemption-to-specific-services-related-to-agri-produce-marketing-anganwadi-workers-and-ayush-from-lockdown-restrictions\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/03\\\/covid-19-exemption-to-specific-services-related-to-agri-produce-marketing-anganwadi-workers-and-ayush-from-lockdown-restrictions\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"headline\":\"COVID 19 | Exemption to specific services related to &#8212; 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