{"id":321300,"date":"2020-03-20T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321300"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:05:20","slug":"coronavirus-all-offices-in-mumbai-pune-nagpur-shut-till-march-31-essential-services-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-all-offices-in-mumbai-pune-nagpur-shut-till-march-31-essential-services-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: All offices in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur shut till March 31, essential services open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321311 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/uddhav.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/uddhav.jpg 679w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/uddhav-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>All offices in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra will be closed till March 31 to fight\u00a0coronavirus, Chief Minister\u00a0Uddhav Thackeray\u00a0announced on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the number of cases in Maharashtra climbed to 52, all shops have also been shut, only essential services will be operational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Minister said all private companies have been told to let employees work from home, government offices in the state would operate at 25 per cent attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CMO Maharashtra in a tweet said, \u201cFrom this Midnight, all workplaces will remain closed till 31st March 2020. This is applicable in Mumbai, MMR Region, Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and Nagpur.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOnly 25% of the employees will be attending Government offices The shops of essential commodities are excluded from this closure. These include foodgrains, milk, medicines etc. If there is any confusion in these cities, the District Collectors will inform,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBanks will continue to function. Hon\u2019ble CM has appealed to the establishments, shop owners that though you are closing your shops but do not stop paying the minimum wages to your hard working staff,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All offices in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra will be closed till March 31 to fight\u00a0coronavirus, Chief Minister\u00a0Uddhav Thackeray\u00a0announced on Friday. As the number of cases in Maharashtra climbed to 52, all shops have also been shut, only essential services will be operational. The Chief Minister said all private companies have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[12470,1467,11986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321312,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321300\/revisions\/321312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}