Chandigarh curfew to continue as long as nation remains under lockdown: UT Administrator

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 11

Chandigarh’s curfew will continue so long as nation lockdown continues, UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore said on Saturday.

Badnore, who attended the video conferencing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said: “It is heartening to know that Chandigarh has fared well in the first phase of curfew. The curfew in Chandigarh will continue as long as the lockdown in the country continues”.

He directed UT Adviser Manoj Parida to formulate a scheme for utilising the services of idle workers in the second phase of curfew, and said the farmers going for harvesting and marketing of their produces should be facilitated during the curfew. 

The Administrator asked the UT’s Education Department to devise a mechanism for 40 book stores of Chandigarh to deliver books to students’ homes during the long curfew period, a press statement from the UT Administration said.

Badnore directed the Adviser to ensure that all students from North-east, Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir are taken care of in the city.

Badnore also launched a new mobile application developed by IT Department of Chandigarh to track quarantine corona patients.

 The development comes at a time when state governments through India have asked the central government to extend its lockdown beyond April 14 to stem the spread of coronavirus.

Chandigarh’s coronavirus tally currently stands at 19 infections.

Chandigarh Administration ordered curfew in the union territory on March 23, a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a nationwide lockdown.

Punjab has already announced it was extending curfew restrictions in the state until May 1.