ASSAM TIMES POST
Guwahati : The ongoing curfew prohibitions in Guwahati have been relaxed for transportation of essential commodities from the whole sellers to the retailer for their sale to the public, said the Kamrup (Metro) district administration on Friday.
Essential goods like food items, vegetables, meat, fish and poultry were allowed to be lifted from the whole sellers to be supplied to the retail shops and markets for selling them to the customers, a spokesman of Kamrup (Metro) district that comprises Guwahati and its adjoining areas.
The district administration and the Food and Civil Supplies Department have appealed the anti-Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 protestors to cause obstruction to the movement of the vehicles transporting the essential items.
The administration has also set up a district control room with phone numbers 0361-2733052, 8255095829 and toll free 1077 in the district Deputy Commissioner’s office here for emergency services. Buses for convenience of passengers stranded in LGB Airport, railway station and ISBT were being arranged to transport them to different parts of the city, the spokesman said.
The administration also distributed food items and water and gave medical assistance to the stranded passengers, he said, adding, fruits and water was being provided to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital patients’ attendants. Today shops and markets opened and vehicles plied across curfew-bound Guwahati following reports in some local TV news channels that the prohibitory order was relaxed from 6 am to 1 pm with shops selling grocery items and other essential goods and markets selling vegetables, fish and poultry.
The Assam Police spokesman said there was no order about the curfew being relaxed in the city and it was continuing to be in force imposed since 6.15 pm on Thursday after the protest here against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, turned violent.
The TV channels, however, later corrected their report stating the curfew was still in force.
