{"id":321408,"date":"2020-03-23T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321408"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:44:17","slug":"centre-asks-states-to-enforce-lockdown-strictly-take-legal-action-against-violators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/centre-asks-states-to-enforce-lockdown-strictly-take-legal-action-against-violators\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks states to enforce lockdown strictly, take legal action against violators"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_321410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321410\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321410\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/police.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/police.jpg 463w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/police-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-321410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central government on Monday ordered states to strictly enforce the lockdown and further asked the state to take legal action against violators, as the coronavirus cases jumped to 415 in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, the Centre and state governments decided to completely lockdown 80 districts across the country till March 31, except for essential services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged the citizens of the country to take the lockdown seriously, imposed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMany people are still not taking the lockdown seriously. Please save yourself and your families, follow the instructions seriously. I request the state governments to ensure the people follow rules and laws.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday issued a set of guidelines on social distancing to airlines and airport operators.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ensure adequate spacing at check-in counters between passengers and also between each counter<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ensure availability of adequate staff for guiding passengers at check-in counters, during security checks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Passengers have been advised to sit at an adequate distance in the waiting area while keeping one seat vacant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ensure that boarding is done in a manner to avoid bunching of passengers at any time and also ensure adequate spacing between passengers in boarding lines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Provision of sanitizers for staff, passengers upon entry into the aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cabin crew to maintain adequate distance while serving the passengers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Seat allocation to be done in a manner where the seat between two passengers is kept empty<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Any other action as deemed appropriate to ensure social distancing is maintained<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central government on Monday ordered states to strictly enforce the lockdown and further asked the state to take legal action against violators, as the coronavirus cases jumped to 415 in the country. On Sunday, the Centre and state governments decided to completely lockdown 80 districts across the country till March 31, except for essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321408"}],"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=321408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321411,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321408\/revisions\/321411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}