The Rajasthan government has implemented the Epidemic Ordinance, 2020 in the state. Now, this new law provides for imprisonment of up to two years and a fine of Rs 10,000 for those who do not follow the rules of the epidemic law. With the coming of this ordinance, the Rajasthan Infectious Diseases Act, 1957 also ended.
Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra signed the 'Rajasthan Pandemic Ordinance, 2020' on May 1, which provides for stringent legal punishment to prevent the epidemic. There is a provision of a fine of Rs 10,000, a two-year sentence, or both together for violating the law.
The ordinance empowers the state government to restrict the duration of essential and emergency services such as banks, media, health services, food supplies, electric water services.
This ordinance will now prevent the government from gathering crowds under any practice or act, sending a person to different habitats, sealing state boundaries, regularizing public transport, creating social distance, crowding religious and public places Preventing the gathering, prohibiting those working in government and private workplaces, playing and closing shops and business offices, necessary Empowers to take action on services including media and health.
Through the new ordinance, the government has also been empowered to inspect the persons coming into the state by air, rail, road, or any other means, by the authorized officials of the house of those suspected of being infected with any such disease.
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