The District Magistrate Girish Dayalan has issued a consolidated order for exempt categories to ensure essential goods and movement of people during curfew imposed to prevent spread of corona virus.The order includes persons(holding official ID) dealing with law and order or emergency situations including executive magistrates, police personnel, military, paramilitary personnel in uniform, health, electricity, water supply, sanitation and other municipal services including garbage collection, cleaning including privately agencies put on duty with valid duty order. Government employees put on essential duties/COVID-19 duties with valid duty orders by head of the department. These would include Government of Punjab, Haryana and UT Chandigarh employees on duty inside or outside the district.The order also includes those especially issued restricted movement curfew pass by DM/ADM/SDM or other officer authorized on their behalf. All persons / vehicles in bona-fide inter State and inter district transit shall be allowed to pass after due verification, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other staff shall also be allowed to attend duties on producing ID cards from their institutions such as PHC, CHC, PGI, GMCH from government side besides private. Hospitals and Chemist Shops shall be allowed to remain open 24x7 but no walk in into shops permitted. Only door step delivery of medicines permitted. Drug de-addiction centres, rehabilitation centres, AYUSH practitioners, diagnostic laboratories and veterinary hospitals have also been exempted.ATMs shall also be allowed to remain open. Movement is permitted to Media persons with accreditation having pink and yellow passes issued by Government of Punjab, Haryana, UT Chandigarh and Union Government.
Manufacturing and inter State transport of essential supplies i.e. food items, fruits, vegetables, dairy products, medicines, medical equipment, LPG, Poultry, Animal Feed are permitted to move. Vehicles carrying or engaged in food items like vegetables, groceries, eggs, meat, green and dry fodder for animals and poultry, piggery feed, ATM cash vans, LPG, Oil containers/Tankers, Home/Door to door delivery of milk, vegetables, medicines and food items only including hawkers, rehris, milkmen are also allowed.The order also includes Agriculture / allied services including farmers and farm labourers going to work in field to harvest crops, to cut perishable vegetables and fodder. Farm operations machinery including combines/harvesters, machinery transport vehicles for carrying farm produce, operation of flour mills, milk plants, dairies, sale of fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides, operations related to food procurement by Government agencies including railways, operations related to Public Distribution System (PDS), Banks including those branches selected by LDM including treasury chest/currency chests with minimum staff and no public dealing.Besides this, Veterinary services and supplies, home delivery by e-commerce portals such as Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy, Zomato, and Markfed, maintenance of zoo, nurseries and plantations, power (generation and transmission, operation of power plants including renewable energy stations, solar power, hydro power, biomass/biogas etc.) are also included in the exempt category.Furthermore, the following establishments must be kept open only for home delivery--All foods and beverages including fresh foods, fruits, vegetables, eggs, meats, poultry, eateries, bakeries, food preparation, general stores, groceries, karyana, pansaris, e commerce, digital delivery, home delivery, LPG, coal, firewood and other fuels. But, all concerned must observe social distancing guidelines.The workers and the vehicles engaged for above mentioned purposes would be allowed to move freely, passes issued for essential supplies would be valid across the state and the passes issued by other states/districts shall also be valid in the S. A. S. Nagar District.