MHA Issues Order To Include Activities In Four Areas In Its Consolidated Lockdown Guidelines

Mumbai: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued an order to include more activities which include non-banking financial institutions, cooperative credit societies and other financial institutions with minimum staff, which may exempt them from lockdown from April 20.

MHA in its order has included in water supply and sanitation, laying/erection of power transmission lines and telecom optical fibre and cable along with related activities in “Construction activities in rural areas” clause.

Similarly, the Ministry of Home Affairs has added collection, harvesting and processing of Small Forest Produce (MFPF) / Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) by Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers in forest areas in ‘Agriculture and Horticultural Activities’.

The ministry has added bamboo, coconut, Arecanut, cocoa, spice plantations and their harvesting, processing, packaging, sales and marketing in their third addition, freeing them from lockdown with effect from April 20.

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To exempt the financial sector, the MHA has allowed non-banking financial institutions (NBFCs) to operate housing finance companies (HFCs) and microfinance institutions (NBFC-MFIs) with bare minimum staff.

These activities will be allowed from 20th April in non-containment zones.

(With ANI Inputs) 

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