Chandigarh administration imposes certain new rules and restrictions in various sectors; check all
Chandigarh, September 15, 2021:
District Magistrate of Chandigarh, Mandip Singh Brar, IAS, has issued certain set of guidelines in various fields on Wednesday.
For Call Centers, Corporate Houses, Media Houses, Companies, Organizations and firms:
As per Mandip Singh Brar, there is mushrooming of BPOs, prominently known as Call Centers, Corporate Houses, Media Houses, Companies, Organizations and firms in Chandigarh and near-by areas, offering employment opportunities to youth. The employees including women from various parts of the neighboring states are staying in different parts of the city and other adjoining cities/villages. Their employers are providing cab services for the purpose of picking and dropping them from their places of stay to the office and back. As these organizations are functioning round the clock, the cabs are ferrying employees even at late night hours. These cabs are hired on contract and their operators and drivers are not properly monitored to ensure safe & secure transportation of employees, resulting in grave danger to human life, safety & security of employees, especially women employees. It has come to notice that certain criminal and anti-social elements look for soft targets, particularly during odd hours. The women employees who travel during late night hours are vulnerable to crime and criminal acts by such elements.
Therefore, the DM directed that all such organizations like B.P.O.s, Call Centres, Corporate Houses, Media Houses, companies, firms & other similar entities, having the facility of pick & drop for their employees and the transporters, security agencies, drivers & security guards attached/concerned with them, in the jurisdiction of Chandigarh, shall:
1. Maintain a data of all employees, security personnel, cab drivers & contractual workers working with them, for access by the Police as and when required.
2. Hire security personnel & other contractual personnel as far as possible from licensed agencies only.
3. Ensure verification of antecedents of all their employees including contractual employees.
4. Ensure that women employees are not made to travel alone with the cab driver and a duly verified security guard or a male colleague is deployed in each cab carrying women staff during night hours, i.e., 08.00 P.M. to 07.00 A.M.
5. Choose the route in such a manner that as far as possible a woman employee is not the first one to be picked up or the last to be dropped.
6. Ensure that during night hours, the cab involved in transportation of women employees pick-up and drop such employees’ right in their house and remain halted at the point where the women employee is dropped till she confirms her arrival at their residence/place of stay through a telephone call.
7. Ensure that whenever the house of a woman employee is so located that the approach road is not motor-able, the duly verified security guard or the male colleague, during night hour, accompanies the employee on foot up to her house & takes a confirmation about her safe arrival.
8. Exercise effective check & control on the vehicles movement in order to check any unwarranted activities of the cab drivers, such as picking up strangers, straying away from the designated route, etc.
9. Get a GPS system installed in the cabs used in transportation of such employees, especially women employees.
In view of the emergent nature of the order, it is being issued ex-parte and is addressed to the public in general. Any breach of this order would invite action under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code. This order shall come into force with effect from zero hours on 19.09.2021 and shall be effective up-to and including 17.11.2021.
Directions for owners/managers/care-takers of Hotels/Restaurants/Guest Houses/Sarais:
Also, the administration has received the inputs from the Police authorities that there is an apprehension that anti-social elements may make their temporary hideouts clandestinely in Hotels/Restaurants/Sarais/Guest Houses, etc. in the Union Territory of Chandigarh and there is every possibility that the unlawful activities of these people can cause breach of peace and disturbance of public tranquility besides posing grave danger to human life & safety and damage to public property.
The DM has issued directions to all the owners/managers/care-takers, etc. of Hotels/Restaurants/Guest Houses/Sarais, etc. in Chandigarh to obtain I.D. proof from the visitors/customers/guests who stay in their Hotel/Restaurant/Guest House/Sarai, etc., in the interest of safety and security of the general public in the U.T., Chandigarh.
He directed the owners/managers/care-takers, etc. of the Hotels/Restaurants/Guest Houses/Sarais, etc. in Chandigarh to strictly comply with the following:
1. Prohibit the stay in their premises of an unknown person whose identity has not been established.
2. Maintain a register for the identity of the visitors/customers/guests.
3. Make an entry in the handwriting of the visitor/customer/guest, mentioning his/her name, address, telephone number and identity proof along with his/her signature in the register.
4. The identity of the visitor shall be established through Aadhar Card, Identity Card, Voter Card, Ration Card, Driving Licence, Passport and photo Credit Card.
This order shall come into force with effect from zero hour on 19.09.2021 and shall be effective for a period of 60 days up-to and including 17.11.2021.
The Chandigarh Administration has earmarked the Rally Ground, Sector 25, Chandigarh for taking out processions, rallies, dharnas, etc. and no permission has been granted by the Chandigarh Administration to organize processions, rallies, dharnas, etc. elsewhere in the city other than the designated location, i.e., Rally Ground, Sector 25, Chandigarh and the same has been done to avoid traffic congestion, keeping in view of the convenience of the general public.
No rally or public gathering in city except in Rally Ground:
The DM also ordered that the public in general or any member thereof is prohibited from taking out procession, rally, protest, strike, making speeches, raising slogans of gathering/assembly of 5 or more people etc. within the territory of U.T., Chandigarh other than Rally Ground, Sector 25, Chandigarh, for a period of 60 days.
Further, prior permission for organizing procession, rally, protest, strike, making speeches, raising slogans, gathering/assembly of 5 or more people etc. at Rally Ground, Sector-25, Chandigarh must be obtained from the Competent Authority, i.e., the District Magistrate/concerned Sub Divisional Magistrate, U.T., Chandigarh.
Provided that the above order shall not apply to:
I. The police or Paramilitary or military persons or any other Government servant on official duties;
II. The processions or meetings for which prior permission in writing of the District Magistrate/concerned Sub Divisional Magistrate, Chandigarh, has been obtained;
(III) The customary and ritualistic procession in connection with weddings and funerals. This order shall come into force from zero hours on 18.09.2021 and shall be effective for a period of sixty days up to and including 16.11.2021.
Prohibition on carrying of firearms, lethal weapons, lathies, spears & javelins, trishuls, swords, short swords, knuckles, knives & daggers, iron rods in city:
Mandip Brar prohibited as measure of emergency, the public generally or any member thereof from carrying of all kind of firearms, lethal weapons, lathies, spears & javelins, trishuls, swords, short swords, knuckles, knives & daggers, iron rods, etc., within the limits of Union Territory of Chandigarh for a period of 60 days.
Provided that the above order shall not apply to:-
1. Police or military or paramilitary personnel and other Govt. servants if called upon to carry firearms in connection with their duties subject to the following conditions:
a. That the police/military/paramilitary personnel shall be in their service uniform.
b. That the exemption is applicable in relation to the above said personnel only when they are on official duty.
c. That the above personnel shall carry their identity cards and authorization cards authorizing them to carry the firearms in connection with their official duties, issued by the Competent Authority.
2. Carrying of firearms and lethal weapons for which permission in writing of the District Magistrate, Chandigarh has been obtained or holders of valid arms license.
This order shall come into force from zero hours on 20.09.2021 and shall be effective for a period of sixty days up-to and including 18.11.2021.
The DM also ordered that flying of Drone and low flying objects, within the Union Territory, Chandigarh must be prohibited to prevent undue loss to life and the property. He prohibits as measure of urgency to the public generally or any member thereof on the flying of Drone and low flying objects etc., within the limits of Union Territory of Chandigarh for a period of 60 days. Provided that the above order shall not apply to:
1. Police personnel and other Government officials/agencies if using the drone purely in connection with their official duties, subject to the following conditions:
a. That the police personnel and other Government officials shall be in their service uniform, if any and shall carry their identity cards and authorization cards authorizing them to use the drone in connection with their official duties, issued by the Competent Authority.
b. That the exemption is applicable in relation to the above said personnel only when they are on official duty.
2. Using the drone for photography during certain social events for which prior permission of the District Magistrate, Chandigarh has been obtained in writing. These social events may include-ring ceremony, pre-wedding photo shoot, and wedding ceremony.
This order shall come into force from zero hours on 19.09.2021 and shall be effective for a period of sixty days up-to and including 17.11.2021.