Maharashtra COVID-19 Lockdown: Here's the list of activities to be allowed starting April 20

Maharashtra government has come out with an additional list of activities that will be permitted after April 20 to mitigate hardship caused by the lockdown. The activities to be restarted from April 20 will operationalised by the concerned authorities based on compliance with the existing guidelines on lockdown measures to fight COVID-19.

State Govt to allow these activities from April 20:

All health services including AYUSH  to remain functional

-Hospitals, clinics, chemists, pharmacies, telemedicine facilities

-Medical laboratories & collection centres

-Pharmaceutical & medical researchers labs, institutions including COVID-19 research

-Veterinary hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, pathology labs, sale & supply of vaccines

-Manufacturing units of drugs, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical oxygen & their packaging material & intermediaries

-Construction of medical/health infra including ambulances

All Agri & Horticulture activities to remain functional:

-Farming operations by farmers & farm workers in field

-Agencies involves in procurement of agri products, including MSP operations

-Mandis operates by APMC or notified by state/UT government

-Shops of agri machinery, spare parts & repair

-Custom hiring centres related to farm machinery

-Manufacturing, distribution & retail of agri inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, seeds)

-Movement of harvesting & sowing related machines lime combined harvester & other agri/horticulture implements

Maharashtra government allows manufacturing units with access control to operate in SEZ & EoUs, industrial estates and industrial townships in non-containment zones.

This, however, is not applicable in MMR & Pune Municipal Corporation.
(Chakan does not fall under PMC)

RBI & RBI regulated financial markets & entities like NPCI, CCIL, payment system operators, NBFCs including HFCs & NBFC-Mis with bare minimum staff

-Bank branches & ATM

-Shall make arrangements for stay of workers in the premises as far as possible or adjacent building to manage SoP

-Transport of workers to be arranged by employers in dedicated vehicles ensuring social distancing

-No worker from hotspot or containment zone will be allowed

-IT vendors for bank operations, banking correspondents and ATM cash management agencies

-Bank branches to be allowed to work for normal working hours till disbursal of DBT cash transfer is over

-SEBI, Capital & debt market services

-IRDAI & insurance companies

-Co-operative & credit societies

Maharashtra government allows industries operating in rural areas, outside the limits of municipal corporations and municipalities

Allows all agri-horticulture produce processing, packaging and transport

Allows production units that require continuous process & their supply chain (imp)

Manufacturing of IT hardware, packaging material

Allows all mining related activities - coal production, mining, transportation, supply of explosives

Activities that will remain prohibited till May 3:

All domestic and international travel

All passenger movement by trains

Buses for public transport

Inter district and inter-state movement of people other than medical reasons

All education, training  and coaching institutions

All industrial/commercial activities except specified in guidelines

All cinema halls, malls, shopping complexes, gyms, swimming pools, entertainment parks, theaters, parks, auditoriums, assembly halls

All social, political, sports, academic, religious, cultural gatherings

All religious places

In case of funerals, congregation of more than 20 people won’t be allowed