Relaxations

Relaxations have been made in the General Financial Rules 201 & specifically for scientific Ministries for procurement procedures.

The curfew relaxations were done to facilitate the students to go to their educational institutions and to enable residents to buy essentials like food and medicines.

Delhi has deferred the decision on implementing the Unlock 5 relaxations while Kerala, which has been witnessing a surge in cases in recent weeks, has banned the assembly of more than five persons till the end of this month.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said the government is likely to consider by Friday the lifting of the emergency decree, two weeks after the implementation of the fourth phase of lockdown relaxations.

Fresh relaxations have been announced in the areas under the limit of Greater Chennai police and in other districts as well.

He added that, under the fifth phase of relaxations, schools will also reopen, exposing students to physical contact with one another and increasing the risk of viral transmission.

He also indicated that the government could go for certain relaxations, while taking all precautions, based on the report of an expert committee, set up to formulate Punjab’s Covid-19 curfew exit strategy.

However, Mr. Jagan suggested that standard operating procedures (SOPs)for workplaces, markets and the manufacturing sector have to be evolved without any ambiguity and further relaxations were required.

If such relaxations are not given, it might result in law and order issues,” he said.

Kejriwal asked, reaching out to the Centre to allow more relaxations in Delhi.

Many of them want to return to their hometowns, despite the government announcing some relaxations in running factories and resuming construction activities.

Non-essential shops will continue to operate as per relaxations and guidelines issued vide orders May 31 and June 4, and “are in operation as per the policy of respective municipal corporation”, it said.

On a day the third phase of nationwide lockdown began with easing of certain restrictions, Haryana minister Anil Vij expressed strong reservations against the relaxations saying that he fears, its “consequences will be devastating”.

Regulatory sandbox (RS) usually refers to live testing of new products or services in a controlled/test regulatory environment for which regulators may (or may not) permit certain relaxations for the limited purpose of testing.

Since Bengaluru (Urban) is classified as a ‘Red Zone’ we have written a letter to MHA seeking permission to get relaxations in all other wards which are free of the pandemic,” Anil Kumar said.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K.Palaniswami on Sunday, May 31 announced the extension of the COVID-19 lockdown till June 30 with some relaxations in the restrictions like the operation of state transport buses.

The distraction from failure – some relaxations in terms of going out and about.

The government had earlier made other relaxations like allowing flower market to operate and sweet shops to open.

The relaxations announced by the government during Covid-19 lockdown will come into effect from Monday.

The relaxations come in view of the coronavirus outbreak.