Uttar Pradesh curfew: Govt relaxes norms for industry workers, students writing exams

Lucknow | Saturday | 17th April, 2021

Summary:

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday announced some relaxation to the 35-hour curfew, imposed owing to the increasing Covid-19 cases in the state.

A curfew was announced Friday for 35 hours stating from 8 pm on Saturday till 7 am on Monday.

Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi informed that all continuous process industries and their workers would be allowed to travel to their workplaces.

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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday announced some relaxation to the 35-hour curfew, imposed owing to the increasing Covid-19 cases in the state.

A curfew was announced Friday for 35 hours stating from 8 pm on Saturday till 7 am on Monday.

Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi informed that all continuous process industries and their workers would be allowed to travel to their workplaces.

All marriages on Saturday and Sunday with restrictions of 50 people inside closed spaces and 100 persons in open spaces with masks, social distancing and use of sanitizers and other precautions as per SOP will be allowed, he added.

“All examinations, like NDA, will be allowed.

Examiners and candidates should carry their ID cards to be allowed movement by the district administration and police,” said Awasthi.

He said that public transport would be allowed to run with 50 per cent capacity, especially state transport buses.