• Medical & essential goods shops to open
• No activity permitted at Marwaripatti area
Morung Express News
Dimapur | April 27
The Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur has allowed shops dealing in essential goods and medicines at Murgipatti and GS Road to resume operating in the absence of any positive COVID-19 case in the area for the last 14 days.
The DC, in an order, further stated that limited movement of public will be allowed for availing of essential services with strict maintenance of social distancing. No overcrowding will be allowed, the order said. Retail shops will open from 9:00am to 2:00pm.
The DC however directed that there will be no activity permitted in the Marawaripatti area.
Further, the order said that no wholesale activities will be permitted in GS Road and the wholesale market of essential commodities will continue to operate from designated Godowns as per the DC’s April 15 order.
Meanwhile, the wholesale vegetable markets will continue to operate from Supermarket area and the wholesale medical market will continue to operate as per the April 18 and 24 orders.
Medical shops at NL Road mull closure
Meanwhile, medical shops along NyamoLotha Road (NL Road) located opposite Christian Literature Centre were mulling downing shutters if the police continue to enforce closure despite order from the administration allowing them to open.
Medicine dealers along that particular side expressed displeasure over the police personnel enforcing closure of their shops on Monday even as the district administration issued order allowing its functioning.
One medicine dealer along that stretch informed The Morung Express that the medical shops in their line and even the medical shops on both sides of NL Road might be closed on Tuesday if the police continue to enforce closure despite administration order permitting it.
“I do not know whether there is any lack of coordination, cooperation or communication gap between the administration and the police,” the medicine dealer stated.
