Summary:
Other areas can remain open from 6 am to 11 pm.”The old law was limited to municipal corporation, municipality and areas covered by government notification. Shops in municipalities and state highways can remain open from 6 am to 2 am. Establishments can remain open 365 days a year as the old mandatory rules like keeping the establishment shut have been scrapped, he added. Claiming that the Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Bill, 2019, will create lakhs of jobs in the state, Purnesh Modi, a BJP MLA, told the state Assembly on Friday that the Bill would help youths get employed as truck drivers, open STD-PCO shops and sell juice on carts. The Bill seeks to repeal the Gujarat Shops and Establishments Act, 1948..