KOLKATA: Following wellness employees, IT and ITeS professionals that are requested to demonstrate their identity cards in checkpoints, cops are requesting the employees of retail shops to take a photocopy of their trade license and an authorisation in the shop owners.
The retail shops are permitted to run from 12 to 3pm.
On Thursday, several retail shop employees complained they were arrested multiple times in checkpoints and asked why they’d ventured out throughout the constraints.
The issue, they explained, might have been resolved, had the authorities issued e-passes into them.
The issue was emphasized over the Kolkata Police societal websites manages.
“Please explain whether retail shop owners and their employees, that are permitted to run between 12pm to 3pm, will need car e-pass to sail in their private vehicles.
That is because public transportation is virtually nil,” tweeted Nagendra Pagaria.
Another store operator, Sitangshu Kumar, emphasized the glitches faced while attempting to make an application for e-pass.
While files need to be uploaded to warrant the demand for a while, the picture needs to be over 100kb dimensions, a tricky proposition since fundamental telephone cameras take photos of greater resolution.
Until today, cops have issued hardly any e-passes.
Cops in Lalbazar stated that the retail owners will need to create some evidence of possession like transaction license.
The employees can take a statement from the owner worried together with the remaining portion of their commerce license.
“When the employees carry a trusted evidence they are utilized in retail stores, we’ll let them sail to the first day or two,” said a senior officer in Lalbazar.
Individuals working in pubs will also need to create proof likewise when they’re permitted to work for 3 hours in the day.
“Individuals working in restaurants may not necessarily have the ability to reach home by 9pm once the strict limitations have been set up.
It’s essential that they take important documents,” said the officer.