Odisha Govt Partially Modifies Lockdown Order, Allows More Activities

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government today partially modified its complete lockdown order to allow a few more activities.

In a fresh order, the Office of Special Relief Commissioner has exempted the following activities during the 14-day lockdown in the districts of Jajpur, Cuttack, Khordha, Jajpur and Rourkela Municipal Corporation from 9 PM of July 17 till July 31 midnight.

Here are list of activities allowed during the lockdown period:-

1. Telecom and Internet Service Providers including their maintenance offices and movement of their staff with proper identity cards.
2. Data and Call Centres.
3. Banks, Insurance, and Financial Institutions including Service Organisations to operate with not more than 25% of their manpower strength for essential banking transactions and ATM feeding agencies.
4. Capital and debt market services as notified by the Security & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) with bare minimum staff.
5. Office of Comptroller & Auditor General of India and its field offices with bare minimum staff
6. Departments of the State Government and their sub-ordinate offices as notified by the GA & PG Department.
7. Offices of UN Agencies with bare minimum staff
8. Mining operations.
9. Shops dealing with fruits, fish, meal chicken and egg between 6 am and 7 pm subject to strict adherence of norms of physical distance and other Covid-19 safety protocols to be ensured by the Local Authorities. The Local Authorities may disperse the fish, meat and chicken shops out of the traditional market.
10. Cold storage warehousing services and packaging units including their transportation
11. Deployment of private security services.
12. Home delivery of IMFL/CL/ OS liquor by the existing ON/OFF/OS licensees as per the prevailing guidelines of the Excise Department.

The above activities are in addition to the list of activities allowed in the June 16 order.