Zirakpur authorities struggle to implement odd-even system

Gaurav Kanthwal

Tribune News Service

Zirakpur, May 12

Five days after the administration allowed opening of shops on an odd-even basis from 5 am to 5 pm in Mohali district, the Dera Bassi SDM, the Zirakpur MC, the Police Department and market associations are still struggling to effectively implement the order in Zirakpur.

At the Patiala chowk, the Zirakpur DSP and the SHO today met traders to enforce the orders smoothly but most traders continued to open their shops arbitrarily. The Dera Bassi SDM, Kuldeep Bawa, met the traders several times to streamline the arrangement in Zirakpur.

“The odd-even arrangement is being enforced properly in Zirakpur. Most of the shopkeepers are following it. Today, shopkeepers on the Patiala road wanted to change it to ‘left and right side of the main road’, instead of the odd-even basis. They have been counselled accordingly”

Meanwhile, the MC officials were seen pasting the odd-even stickers on the shops today. The representatives of a community met the police officials to seek permission for holding the Eid prayer in a mosque.

27 FIRs registered

The police have registered 27 FIRs against owners of commercial establishments for the violation of Covid-19 guidelines and arrested 35 persons. As many as 14 salons, five spa centres, a mobile phone shop, a garment shop, a hotel-cum-spa centre, four tattoo artists and a vehicle owner have been booked. The violators were released on bail later.