Mohali, March 29, 2020: To ensure essential goods and services and bona-fide movement of people for the same during curfew in district SAS Nagar, DC Girish Dayalan has ordered that following exempt categories are consolidated and reiterated:
1. Persons dealing with (with Official ID):
a. law and order/ emergency including executive magistrates
b. police personnel, military/ paramilitary personnel in uniform
c. health
d. electricity
e. water supply, sanitation and other municipal services including garbage collection, cleaning etc. (these shall include those private agencies put on duty with Valid Duty Order)
f. Government employees put on essential duty/ COVID19 duties (with Valid Duty Order by Head of Department). It is clarified that these include employees of Government of Punjab/ UT of Chandigarh/ Haryana, on duty in or outside the district.
2. Those especially issued a Restricted Movement Curfew Pass by the DM / ADM/ SDM or other officer authorized in this behalf.
3. All vehicles/ persons in bona-fide transit (inter-state/ inter district) shall be allowed to pass but only after due verification of point of origin and destination.
4. Heath Services personnel such as Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists and all other Staff shall also be allowed to attend duties on production of ID Cards from their respective institutions – Government (eg. PHC, CHC, PGI, GMCH, etc.) and Private.
5. Hospitals, Chemist shops and ATMs shall be allowed to remain open 24x7 – This shall be ensured by Civil Surgeon, ZLA and LDM respectively.
6. Media persons with accreditation and recognition (pink and yellow passes) issued by the Government (Punjab/ Haryana/ UT/ GoI).
7. Manufacturing and inter-state transport of essential supplies i.e. food items, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, medicines, medical equipment, LPG, POL, animal feed etc.
8. Manufacturing of packaging material for essential goods (given above) 9. Vehicles carrying/ engaged in:
a. food items such as vegetables, groceries, eggs, meat etc.
b. green and dry fodder for animals and poultry, piggery feed.
c. ATM Cash Vans
d. LPG
e. Oil Containers/ Tankers
f. Home/ Door-to-Door delivery of milk, vegetables, medicines, and food items only including hawkers, rehris, milkmen etc.
10. Agriculture/ Allied activities including:
a. Farmers/ farm labor going to work in field - to cut perishable vegetables, fodder or to harvest/ sow crops.
b. Farm operations machinery including Combines/ Harvesters, machinery and transport vehicles for carrying the farm produce.
c. Operation of custom hiring centers in cooperative and private sector.
d. Operation of flour mills and milk plants and dairies.
e. Sale of seeds, fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides.
f. Preparation of marketing yards for wheat arrivals.
g. Operations related to food procurement by Government agencies including railways.
h. Operations related to PDS (Public Distribution System) under NFSA.
11. Banks:
a. those branches selected by LDM including treasury/ currency chests with skeletal staff, as per directions of Government.
b. However, no public dealing shall be allowed – only for servicing the supply lines of essential services.
12. Veterinary services and supplies
13. Home delivery services by e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy, Zomato, Markfed etc.
14. Maintenance of Zoo, Nurseries, Plantations
15. Power
a. generation/ transmission and distribution
b. operation of power plants including renewable energy stations, solar power, hydro power, biomass/ biogas etc
All concerned shall observe social distancing guidelines.
Further, it is reiterated that vide orders of Department of Home Affairs, Government of Punjab:
a. Workers and vehicles engaged for the above-mentioned purposes shall be allowed to move freely.
b. Passes issued for essential supplies would be valid across the State.
c. Passes issued for essential supplies by other states/ districts shall also be valid in this District.