Lockdown extension: Shops divided into 3 categories in Patna

PATNA: With the state government extending lockdown by one more week and giving some relaxations for commercial activities, Patna district magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh on Monday announced fresh timings for different categories of shops.
Shops and commercial establishments have been divided into three categories. Shops selling grocery items, vegetables, fruits, meat and fish, dairy products, grain markets, fertilizers, seeds, fodder, petrol pump and gas agencies will be opened every day in the district from 6am to 2pm.
In the second category, establishments related to electrical goods, salons, parlours, automobile workshops, service centres, high security and registration plate centres, pollution check centres, bicycle repairing shops, furniture shops, stationeries and shops selling beauty products will be allowed to do business on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Shops selling clothes and ready-made garments, utensils, gold and silver, sports items, slippers as well as dry cleaners and those selling construction materials have been put in the third category. These shops have been allowed to be open on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The letter said any shop not mentioned in first two categories will be considered in the third category. All the shops in the three categories will be allowed to remain open from 6am to 2pm.
Medicine shops, hospitals, private clinics, banking and services related to insurance, ATM, industrial units and those involved in manufacturing, all kind of construction works, e-commerce activities, print and electronic media, petrol pumps, cold storage, services related to telecommunication, internet and private security have been put in the exceptional category with no fixed timing.
All schools, colleges, coaching and training institutes will remain closed and schools are not allowed to take any examination during the lockdown period. Restaurants and eateries will be allowed for home delivery and take away from 9am to 9pm.