Nagpur: Even because only important shops and services are allowed to operate on weekends, the majority of shops that are not important also remain open on Saturdays.
Toi visited various markets throughout the city on Saturday and found that no city police officers and Nuisance (NDS) Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) squad ensure all unnecessary stores remained closed on weekends.
Many non-essential stores in commercial areas such as jaripatka, itwari, expensive, gandhibagh, conscious and dharampeth is fully open or the skin is half open.
In some places, Toi found that shop owners stand outside and entertain customers.
Support City Commissioner Ram Joshi also said on Saturday he had received many complaints that functioned in consciousness, ITWARI and Sitabuldi.
He claimed the NMC civilian police took action against the shop owner because and when the Covid-19 guidelines were visible.
In accordance with the action of epidemic, NMC has the power to punish those who do not follow the Norma Covid-19.
“We will take more stringent actions if people find more frequent norms,” additional commissioners said.
According to the NDS Commandant Virsen Tamke, the squad has sealed 50 stores within the last five months for violating the safety guidelines set to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
“In addition to sealing a shop for 48 hours, the team also collected a fine of RS4.25 Lakh from the owner of the offending shop,” he said.
Most stores are sealed because they do not ensure physical distances among customers, entertaining customers do not wear masks and do not provide sanitaryers.
NDS data revealed that the highest number of violations was reported from the Gandhibagh zone where 20 stores were sealed and the fine RS1.80 lakh was collected.
Under the Mangalwari zone, eight shops were sealed, four under the Dharampeth zone and three were under the Zone of Hanuman Nagar and Satranjipura.
Under the Zone of Nehru Nagar and Lakadganj, the NDS team each sealed one shop.
The source said all the dining connections, especially the Saoji restaurants in Bajaj Nagar roughly violated Covid-19 guidelines by allowing dinner until late at night.
City police and civilian police closed their eyes against this violation, they said.
NMC failed to keep shops that were not important to close on weekends
