DM Kishtwar orders partial relaxation in essential services

Excelsior Correspondent

KISHTWAR, Apr 22: With an aim to provide relief to the hardships faced by the public during this unavoidable lockdown, District Magistrate Kishtwar Rajinder Singh Tara today ordered for partial or conditional relaxation in the various services/commodities.
As per the order, medical shops shall remain open from 10:00 AM to 08:00 PM for all days of the week besides fruit and vegetable shops, milk and milk product shops, poultry/meat/fish shops along with the feed and fodder shops shall remain open on all the days of the week from 10:00 AM to 02:00 pm.
Further, all the stationery and mobile/computer shops shall remain operative on the Monday and Friday from 10:00 AM to 02:00 PM only.
The grocery shops including Kiryana shops (retail and wholesale) shall open on the three days of the week i.e Monday, Thursday and Saturday from 10:00 AM to 02:00 PM.
Besides all the load carriers shall be allowed to enter the premises of Kishtwar town only from 06:00 PM to 09:00 PM for unloading during this lock down period.
Keeping in view the safety of the public, conditions have been specified for all the customers as well as the shopkeepers to use mask and maintain the social distancing along with the other protocols of COVID-19, failing with the permission will be revoked.