Shop timings curtailed in Gaya

GAYA: Amid rise in Covid-19 cases, the administration has curtailed the shop opening hours in Gaya Municipal Corporation area, Bodh Gaya nagar panchayat, sub-divisional headquarters at Sherghati, Tekari and Khizarsarai (Nemchak Bathani sub-division headquarter) and all the block headquarters of the district. The time curtailment was imposed through a joint notification issued by district magistrate Abhishek Singh and SSP Rajiv Mishra. The notification, issued late on Friday evening, will remain effective till September 6.
As per the notification, the shops will remain open only between 10am and 6pm. Earlier, shopkeepers were allowed to operate between 6am and 9pm. Medicine shops and health delivery system has been exempted from the revised time slot. Vegetable, meat and fish shops will remain open for only four hours every day from 6am to 10am.
There will be total lockdown on Sundays. The earlier notified staggering arrangement mandating shop opening on the left side of the roads on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and those on the right side of the road on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday will continue.
As per earlier notification, shopping malls, educational institutions, coaching centres and training institutes will remain closed. All kinds of public gathering other than those relating to marriage and funeral will remain banned.