{"id":228726,"date":"2020-04-25T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T08:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=228726"},"modified":"2020-04-25T14:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T08:31:54","slug":"clarification-on-mha-order-allowing-opening-of-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/04\/25\/clarification-on-mha-order-allowing-opening-of-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarification on MHA order allowing Opening of Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ministry of Home Affairs issued an Order yesterday on amendments in the consolidated revised guidelines on lockdown measures to allow opening of shops. (<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1618049\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1618049<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>This Order implies that:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In rural areas, all shops, except those in shopping malls are allowed to open.<\/li>\n<li>In urban areas, all standalone shops, neighborhood shops &amp; shops in residential complexes are allowed to open. Shops in markets\/market complexes and shopping malls are not allowed to open.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is clarified that sale by <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>e-commerce<\/em><\/span> companies will continue to be permitted for <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>essential goods only<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is further clarified that <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>sale of liquor<\/em><\/span> and other items continues to be prohibited as specified in the National Directives for COVID-19 management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>As specified in the consolidated revised guidelines, these shops will NOT BE PERMITTED TO OPEN in areas, whether rural or urban, which are declared as CONTAINMENT ZONES by respective States\/ UTs.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Ministry of Home Affairs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Press Release dt. 25-03-2020]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Source: PIB]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Home Affairs issued an Order yesterday on amendments in the consolidated revised guidelines on lockdown measures to allow opening of <\/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":[40767,3437,40231,40786,40895,12351,40896],"class_list":["post-228726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-containment-zones","tag-e-commerce","tag-essential-goods","tag-opening-of-shops","tag-rural","tag-sale-of-liquor","tag-urban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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