{"id":322440,"date":"2020-04-20T06:08:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322440"},"modified":"2020-04-20T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:08:26","slug":"mha-accuses-kerala-govt-of-violating-lockdown-rules-as-state-reopens-restaurants-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mha-accuses-kerala-govt-of-violating-lockdown-rules-as-state-reopens-restaurants-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"MHA accuses Kerala govt of violating lockdown rules as state reopens restaurants, roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322441 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200420-113903__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200420-113903__01.jpg 766w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200420-113903__01-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200420-113903__01-696x472.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200420-113903__01-619x420.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/>The Kerala government\u2019s decision to open restaurants and allowing private vehicles movements on an odd-even basis as part of relaxations in the lockdown due to COVID-19 has not gone down well with the Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The government of India has accused the Kerala government of \u201cdiluting\u201d guidelines issued by Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In a letter to the Kerala government, the home ministry said, \u201cGovernment of Kerala has allowed opening of activities, prohibited under Consolidated Revised Guidelines on Lockdown2 measures, issued by MHA on 15.04.2020 to fight COVID19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cThese activities include opening of local workshops, barber shops, restaurants, bookstores, MSMEs in municipal limits; bus travel in the cities\/ towns for shorter distance, two passengers in the back seat of four-wheeler, pillion riding on scooters,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cThis amounts to dilution of guidelines issued by MHA &amp; violation of MHA Order dated 15th April 2020 issued under the Disaster Management Act 2005,\u201d the home ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Kerala has so far reported 402 COVID-19 cases with 3 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala government\u2019s decision to open restaurants and allowing private vehicles movements on an odd-even basis as part of relaxations in the lockdown due to COVID-19 has not gone down well with the Centre. The government of India has accused the Kerala government of \u201cdiluting\u201d guidelines issued by Ministry of Home Affairs. In a letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[12470,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322440"}],"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=322440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322442,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322440\/revisions\/322442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}