Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has imposed night curfew from 9 pm to 5 am, starting today till February 1 in all urban areas of the State.
Earlier, the night curfew restrictions were imposed from 10 pm to 5 am. But in a bid to check the spread of COVID-19 in the State, the Special Relief Commissioner revised the timings to 9 pm-5 am, along with other restrictions.
The state has also limited the number of guests at weddings and funerals to 100 and 50 respectively, in an attempt to curb mass gatherings in the state.
Mass gatherings have proven to be super spreaders in other states throughout the country.
Here are the details about what’s allowed and not allowed during the night curfew:
Restrictions:
• There shall be no movement of vehicles except for exigencies on production of proper evidence.
• During the Night curfew, all the shops and malls shall remain open across the State from 5 am to 9 pm every day.
Exemptions:
• District and Municipal Administration/ Police/ Government Officials on duty
• Doctors, Medical/ Paramedical Staff (Govt. & Private), ambulances and emergency health staff
• Emergency workers of utilities such as Electricity, Fire Services, Telecom, Water Supply, Railways and Airport
• Print and Electronic Media identified by Commissionerate/ District Police
• Movement of Public Transport, private vehicles and taxis (including cabs by aggregators like Ola, Uber, etc.) to and from airports, railway station and bus terminals/ stands/ stops, for facilitating movement of passengers by air, rail and road
• Staff of IT & ITeS companies on production of their ID cards
• Any person, in case of medical or other emergency
• Owner/ staff of Chemist shops
• All industrial units
• All construction activities
• Early Warning Agencies including IMO
• Disaster Management establishments
• No restrictions shall apply to COVID testing and vaccination centres and movement of persons/ vehicles for COVID testing and vaccination shall be allowed
• All Government & Private offices/ establishments dealing with essential services/ utility providers like power, telecommunication, water supply, Police, Municipal Services, Railways/ Airport/ Port services and Security etc. shall remain functional
• All commercial establishments including essential items, food and vegetable shops, excluding all medicine/ pharmaceuticals/ medical devices/optical shops etc. shall remain closed
• Operation of hotels and hospitality units, including their associated offices, movement of staff and associated personnel
• Dhabas along National and State Highways/ Major roads for takeaway only
• Petrol pumps and CNG Stations
• LPG distribution, home delivery of cooking gas and associated facilities, personnel and vehicular movement
• Home Delivery of food, groceries, vegetables, egg, fish, meat, milk and other essential items by restaurants and aggregators such as Zomato, Swiggy, OPOLFED, OMFED, Chilika Fresh etc.
Other Restrictions:
•No physical classes in schools up to 12th standard
•A maximum of 100 people will be allowed to participate in government official meeting or training programme.
•Cinema halls will have to run with 50% capacity.
•Jatra and open air theatres will operate with only 1000 spectators.
•Roadside vendors, hotels and bars will be allowed to operate till 9 pm.
•In small shops and roadside outlets, only a maximum of five people should be allowed to stand at a time.
•Hotels and bars can accomodate only 50% of their seating capacity.
•Guests in marriages and thread ceremony reduced to 100.
•No cultural events, trade fair.
•No socio-religious and cultural events at any hotel, park and other public places.