|Baltana Punjab |Raid in baltana at local wine shop:

|punjab News|27 April 2020
|Baltana Today|

liquor sold illegally in Baltana last night, While there is lockdown/curfew.After the complaint of local .Police raided the wine shop .Now situation is in control.

Amid growing concerns over the coronavirus, two suspected cases have been reported from Baltana, Punjab. According to the information, they are husband and wife. The husband has been identified as 27-year-old while his wife has been identified as 25-year-old. They both are having a history of running nose. As per the report, they had returned from Switzerland on March 1. Meanwhile, the sampling has been done while they are admitted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh.The total number of coronavirus cases in Punjab has increased to 309 after Jalandhar, Nawanshahr, Pathankot and Rajpura reported fresh cases on Saturday. According to the media bulletin issued by the Punjab Health Department on Saturday evening, Rajpura has reported 6 new cases of coronavirus while Jalandhar reported 3 new cases. Nawanshahr and Pathankot have

Zirakpur has a number of shopping malls including easyday, metro, D mart, Cosmo Mall, big bazaar. It also has showrooms of various established and well known brands such as Reebok, Nike, Adidas etc. It has many eating joints also such as haldirams, dominos, KFC, Mcdonalds and also various dhabas near the highway.

Lockdown and curfew will continue in all these districts till May 3, which will also be strictly followed.No relaxation in curfew nor special exemption for Zirakpur: Captain Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has categorically refused to relax any curfew in the state till May 3.

Six new positives found in Rajpura:

The risk of corona virus is increasing in Patiala. On Friday, six new Corona positive cases were reported in Rajpura. All of them were already in contact with the infected. In the midst of increasing threat of covid-19 in Rajpura, District Magistrate-cum-Deputy Commissioner Kumar Amit took an important decision late Thursday and declared the Rajpura Municipal Council's boundary and the city a buffer zone as a precautionary measure. These orders of the District Magistrate came into force immediately. 

Until further orders, no person can go out from Rajpura nor can anyone enter Rajpura. Everyday essential supplies to local residents will be supplied by the Council under the supervision of SDM Rajpura Tea Bainith. The vegetable market of Rajpura will remain closed, but the grain market, including petrol pumps, where wheat procurement is going on, will remain open.

Punjab Government on Farmers:

the government claims to be helping Farmers by waiving off loans of Primary Agriculture Co-operative Service Societies, the fact is that majority of these people are not members of co-operatives,” said Singh.

|Punjab Government|Farmers

“Earlier we used to go to local vegetable mandis and sell our produce but now since local mandis have been shut, we are in crisis and do not where to sell our produce. This is the harvesting season, and we have quintals of vegetables with us but no place to sell. The vegetable which we use to sell at RS 15 per kg is now being sold at distressed price of Re 1 per kg,” said a farmer from a village near Kohara, Amrik Singh.

In fact, officials in Punjab tried to use labourers registered under MNREGA. On an average, there are roughly 70 registered labourers in every village of the state. But after a week of a procurement cycle, they realised many of them either can’t work or don’t have the skill set and aptitude to work in the fields.

The industrial labourers require different skill-sets and don’t want to work in the fields. The farmers tell us, the local labourers —getting free grain under welfare schemes, run by respective states as well as from the Centre and are getting money from various safety nets—are not ready to work in the fields either.

No relaxation in curfew / lockdown in six districts of Punjab till May 3, the rest will apply in these rules:

The central government has announced a conditional exemption in lockdown from April 20, but this exemption will not be granted in six districts of Punjab. Lockdown and curfew will continue in all these districts till May 3, which will also be strictly followed. Because these districts are declared hotspots and placed in containment zones (infected areas). Hence, strict restrictions on every public activity will continue here. Mohali, Nawanshahar, Jalandhar, Patiala, Ludhiana and Pathankot have been named in this list.

No relaxation in curfew nor special exemption for Ramadan: Captain

Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has categorically refused to relax any curfew in the state till May 3. He has also made it clear that the situation will be reviewed once again on 3 May. The Chief Minister ordered the Deputy Commissioners to strictly enforce curfew in all districts.

Even during the Ramadan festival starting this week, he has denied any relaxation or relaxation. He clarified that no special curfew passes should be issued to the people for Ramadan. The Chief Minister took this decision after taking stock of the current situation with senior officers of civil and police administration.

Chief Minister is not in favor of relaxing any

The government spokesperson said that the decision has been taken by the Union Home Ministry to relax the lockdown in the areas declared non-union zones in the country from April 20. However, in discussing the ground reality, the Chief Minister has a strong view of the harvesting and procurement of wheat by his government, as well as various industrial / kilns and construction activities where the migrant laborers live. There should be no relaxation except the decisions already taken.