Thread by @dsureshkumar

#Covid_19india
Here is the Official List of services / activities exempt during TN Lockdown from 6 pm March 24 to 31.

1. Multiple Government Departments...

2. Police, Prohibition and Excise, Home Guards, Fire & Rescue Services, Prisons and Social Defence Homes....

3. Courts..

4. District administration...

5. Public Utilities – Electricity Boards, Public Works Department, Metro Water (TWAD Board), Water Supply, Sewerage and Municipal Services.

6. Urban and rural local bodies

7. Hospitals and all Health related establishments, including Animal Husbandry

8. Regional Transport Offices

9. Commercial Taxes and Registration Offices

10. Treasury and Sub-Treasury

11. Public Distribution System shops and related offices

12. Aavin and Milk Unions

13. Amma Canteens with adequate social distancing.

14. Any other office considered necessary by the District Collector / State Government.

15. Defence, Para Military, Tax / Revenue related, Medical Services & related Public Utilities, Ports Immigration, MEA branch secretariat, FRRO, Development Commissioner, MEPZ, Joint Director, Foreign Trade, Food Corporation of India, Post Offices, Railways, Airports, Media

16. Hospitals, Dispensaries, Clinics, Chemists, Optical stores, oxygen cylinder units, Pharmaceuticals, medical equipment manufacturing/service units, health related manufacturing units including mask, sanitation material manufacturing units & their transportation

17. Food including Rice, Pulses, Edible oil, Spices and condiments, Processed food, Groceries, Milk, Bread, Fruit, Vegetable, Meat, Eggs, Fish, Rice and other essential and perishable products and their transportation related activities and warehousing

18. Dairy, Poultry feed, fodder, fodder units & Milk Booths

19. Banks & ATM (as per RBI regulations)

20. Press and Media offices and establishments

21. IT, Financial Services Back Offices and ITES Companies. IT and ITES units will ensure employees work from home. Where it is not feasible to do so, units dealing with critical and essential services will continue to operate taking all protective measures.

22. Restaurants, Eateries, Kitchens – only take away (seating not permitted). In tea shop no gathering is allowed

23. Petrol Pumps, LPG Gas and Bottling plants, Oil Agencies,
Petroleum & Gas Stations / Depots / product outlets and their godowns transportation.

24. Depositories, Stock Brokers and SEBI Registered Participants, subject to SEBI guidelines

25. E-Commerce, Pharmaceutical and other essentials. However, home delivery of food items through aggregators like Swiggy, Zomato, Uber eats are prohibited

26. Agriculture and Horticulture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries related shops and markets.

27. All security services including those provided by private
agencies

28. Food related / food processing industries, including flour mills

29. Those units which are of a continuous nature where immediate shutting down would disrupt the on-going process for a long time or not possible Chemical factories

30. All industries permitted to operate shall work at 50% of their strength on rotation basis

31. Export units and SEZs at 50% of their strength on rotation basis.

32. Manufacturing units engaged in production of essential
commodities, agriculture commodities & agriculture inputs, food items and wholesalers, retailers of such items

33. Transport arrangements made by the IT, ITES, industries and establishments to transport their employees from home and drop

34. Ambulances, Vehicles / Cabs owned or contracted by the companies under exempted categories for transportation of staff to work place and back, all Goods Carriers, Taxis to and fro from airport, hospitals to home, Hearse/funeral services vehicles, Government vehicles

35. Marriages already fixed on or before 16.3.2020 in marriage halls alone can be conducted subject to a maximum number of 30 guests. The marriage halls are instructed to return the advance paid by the public for all cancelled bookings

36. The examination scheduled on 24.3.2020 for +2 students will be conducted as scheduled. However, +1 exams scheduled on 26.3.2020 stand postponed. All other exams related to colleges, schools and Government recruitment stand postponed.

37. All religious places are closed for public darshan / worship. However, daily rituals may be conducted.

38. Anganwadis, schools, colleges, Government welfare
hostels, malls, theatres, large centrally air-conditioned shops, amusement parks, swimming pools, Gymnasium, zoos, museums, libraries, tourist resorts, tourist places, beaches, local shandies will continue to remain closed

39. Any person found violating these measures shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable under sec 188 and other relevant sections of IPC. Such person shall in addition be dealt with under provisions of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, The Disaster Management Act, 2005.