Prohibition order in Surkhet from tonight for a week: what is open, what is the ban?

 

Surkhet has been served with a one-week restraining order, which goes into effect at 12 p.m. today. According to the order given by the Chief District Officers, all facilities except those considered necessary have been suspended during the injunction period.

Essential food stores will be open in the morning and evening. Government offices, banks and financial institutions and other essential service providing offices will be operated.  Government employees, banks and financial institutions and employees working in other essential services will be able to move around by showing their identity cards. In the case of marriage bratbandha, it is mentioned in the order that up to 15 people can participate with the permission of the administration office to follow the health standards. Means of transport, ambulances carrying sick and crippled people, vehicles used by health workers and security forces will be allowed to run.

Similarly, there will be no ban on the operation of ambulances, drinking water, health, food, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, banks, financial institutions, telecommunications, internet, quarantine, isolation, garbage management and other means of transportation. Vehicles of government offices will be allowed to operate with the permission of the concerned department, while arrangements have been made to issue manpower and material transport vehicles to be used for development works on the recommendation of the project head or the office head.

 

According to the Infectious Diseases Act 2020 and the Local Administration Act 2028, the district administration office has been banned from holding all kinds of meetings, conferences, seminars and gatherings .According to the order, the operation of shopping malls, cinema halls, salons, etc. has also been banned. The order also states that both private and public vehicles will not be allowed to operate from the night of April 29 for a week. 

Similarly, public and private vehicles will be banned

from entering the country except those carrying vehicles carrying essential

essential items, ambulances carrying sick and sick people , vehicles used by 

health workers and security agencies.