Delhi Lockdown: Here's What's Still Open

Delhi Lockdown: Here's What's Still Open

Delhi lockdown over coronavirus: All kinds of transport such as private buses, taxis, autorickshaws, rickshaws and e-rickshaws other than Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses will not run.

New Delhi: The Delhi government has requested all organizations to pull down their screens and private vehicle administrators to remain off the streets in a full lockdown of the national capital in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The outskirts will be fixed and just those individuals who are in a rundown of what is considered "basic administrations" will be permitted to move unreservedly. 

"For preventive measures to contain spread of covid-19 episode, bearings have been given for lockdown in the entire regional purview of NCT of Delhi from 0600 hrs on Monday 23rd March 2020 to 12 PM 31st March 2020," Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal tweeted on Sunday.

The Delhi Metro will stay shut till March 31. A wide range of transport, for example, private transports, taxis, autorickshaws, rickshaws and e-rickshaws other than transports of the state-run Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) won't run. The DTC armada that is sent on the streets, notwithstanding, will be just 25 percent of its full ability to ship individuals who are working in administrations thought about fundamental.

All the services and businesses that are considered essential and which will remain open are:

• Offices charged with law and order and magisterial duties
• Police
• Health
• Fire
• Prisons
• Fair price shops (public distribution system)
• Electricity
• Water
• Municipal services
• Activities related to functioning of legislative assembly of Delhi
• Pay and accounts office (only for salary/wages/contingent/health and essential services related expenditure)
• Print and electronic media
• Cashier/teller operations of banks (including ATMs)
• Telecom, internet and postal services
• E-commerce of all essential goods including food, pharmaceutical and medical equipment
• Food items, groceries (fruit/vegetables/milk/bakery items, meat, fish, etc)
• Milk plants
• General provision stores
• Takeaway/home delivery in restaurants
• Chemists and pharmacies
• Petrol pumps, LPG/oil agencies (including their godown and transportation-related activities)
• Animal fodder
• Manufacturing, processing, transportation, distribution, storage, trade/commerce and logistics related to all the above services/establishments and commodities required for delivery of these above services
• Any other essential service/establishment that may be exempted by the government

The government has said it will ensure essential items are available across Delhi and has asked people to guard against panic-buying.

"Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures," Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. "We have been fortunate. In our country, the virus came late. We had the advantage of watching and learning from the experiences of Italy and China. But if we still cannot take the right step at the right time, we would never forgive ourselves," he added.