Give masks free with sweets, rakhis: DC to shopkeepers

Ludhiana: To popularise the use of masks, sweet shop owners, who have been allowed to keep their shops open this Sunday to facilitate the Raksha Bandan celebration, are urged to give free masks with purchases. This was suggested by the deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday, when he had met the traders to brief them about protocols.
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh had recently announced that the sweet shops will be allowed to remain open on August 2, a day before the Raksha Bandhan festival, despite the Sunday lockdown in place in the state.
During the meeting, the DC urged the union members to give two masks free of cost with the purchase of sweets in order to promote and popularise the use of masks. Similarly, shops selling rakhis are also being nudged to give free masks on purchase of rakhis.
The meeting was also attended by additional DC Sandeep Kumar, district health officer Dr Rajesh Garg, Sweet Shop Owners Association president Narinder Singh, among others.