Transportation of all essential, non-essential goods allowed during lockdown: MHA
India TodayThe Union Home Ministry on Sunday allowed the transportation of all essential and non-essential goods in the country and the use of premises of the state disaster response force to shelter migrant workers and the homeless stranded due to the lockdown imposed to combat Covid-19. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla wrote to the chief secretaries of all states and Union territories, asking them to enure that relief camps were set up at the facilities of the SDRF for homeless people, including migrant labourers, to provide them shelter and food. It said the Home Ministry had already issued an order invoking the Disaster Management Act, under which the district authorities were asked to strictly implement additional measures to stop the movement of migrant workers and provide them quarantine facilities, shelter and food, and ensure payment of wages and non-eviction by their landlords. The home secretary also made it clear that the newspaper delivery supply chain is allowed under exemptions given for print media.
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