Maharashtra imposes additional restrictions
The Hindu
Food and vegetable shops to stay open only for four hours a day
A week after it imposed lockdown-like curbs across the State, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday imposed additional restrictions by curtailing the timings of shops selling essential food items like groceries, vegetables and poultry. An order issued by Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 and the Disaster Management Act, 2005 states that “all groceries, vegetables shops, fruit vendors, dairies, bakeries, confectionaries, as well as all other types of food shops (including chicken, mutton, fish and eggs)” are to kept open only between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. Shops related to agricultural implements and farm produce, pet food shops, and those related to materials for the impending rainy season are to follow this rule as well.
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