{"id":321313,"date":"2020-03-20T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321313"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:25:51","slug":"janata-curfew-delhi-metro-services-to-be-closed-on-march-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/janata-curfew-delhi-metro-services-to-be-closed-on-march-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Janata Curfew: Delhi Metro services to be closed on March 22"},"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-304940 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/metro.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/metro-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/metro-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Delhi Metro services will not function on Sunday as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;janata\u00a0curfew&#8221; to minimise the spread of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn the wake of \u2018Janta Curfew\u2019 to be observed this Sunday i.e, on 22nd March 2020, DMRC has decided to keep its services closed. The move is aimed at encouraging public to stay indoors and maintain social distancing, which is essential in the fight against Covid-19,\u201d the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi government today ordered closure of all malls in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn view of the prevailing situation, we are closing down all Malls (except grocery, pharmacy and vegtable shops in them),\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll non-essential public dealing activities stopped till 31 Mar. Only essential public dealing activities will continue. All non-essential staff are being directed to work from home. All permanent and contractual employees will be paid for this period,\u201d Kejriwal added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said, \u201cWe are closing all 3 Delhi Haats also which are run by Delhi government in INA, Pitam pura and Janakpuri. HoHo bus services of tourism department are also closed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The number of coronavirus cases in country rose to 223 on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Metro services will not function on Sunday as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;janata\u00a0curfew&#8221; to minimise the spread of coronavirus. \u201cIn the wake of \u2018Janta Curfew\u2019 to be observed this Sunday i.e, on 22nd March 2020, DMRC has decided to keep its services closed. The move is aimed at encouraging public to stay indoors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[12470,429,1963],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321313"}],"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=321313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321314,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321313\/revisions\/321314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}