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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Lockdown extended; States will Centre throws open all take a call on infection zones sectors to private players MGNREGA gets Government eases inter­State travel but curbs on malls, religious gatherings stay Centre’s guidelines in line ₹40,000 crore in with Delhi proposal: CM Vijaita Singh FM’s fifth tranche NEW DELHI New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal The Centre on Sunday ex­ Special Correspondent on Sunday said the Centre’s tended the nationwide lock­ NEW DELHI guidelines for the fourth phase of lockdown are largely down, first imposed on The Centre has agreed to de­ in line with the proposal sent March 24, for the fourth time mands from States to hike by the Delhi government. till May 31 while giving con­ their borrowing limits from The proposal, he said, was siderable flexibility to the 3% to 5% of their GDP in light based on suggestions of States in deciding red, green of the COVID­19 crisis, but lakhs of Delhiites. and orange zones of CO­ on the condition that they CITY Ī PAGE 3 VID­19 intensity. implement specific reforms. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD The Ministry of Home Af­ The fifth and final tranche Inhuman to send bodies fairs, in its fresh guidelines of the Atmanirbhar Bharat by trucks, says Soren for Lockdown 4.0, eased res­ Abhiyan stimulus package, BHUBANESWAR trictions considerably by al­ announced by Finance Mi­ Jharkhand Chief Minister lowing inter­State movement nister Nirmala Sitharaman Hemant Soren on Sunday of buses and cars, opening of on Sunday, also included an lashed out at his Uttar all shops, except those in additional ₹40,000 crore al­ Pradesh counterpart Yogi malls and containment location for the Mahatma Adityanath on Twitter for the zones, and the delivery of Gandhi National Rural Em­ ‘inhuman treatment’ meted non­essential items through ployment Guarantee Act out to migrant workers online shopping platforms. (MGNREGA), and a new pol­ who died in a road accident icy welcoming private com­ in U.P.’s Auraiya district on panies into every sector of Saturday. industry, while limiting pu­ NORTH & EAST Ī PAGE 4 blic sector enterprises to Over 5,000 cases DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Barber shops and salons can was directed to modify the said that the practice of work adequate distance between strategic sectors only. Cor­ U.P. withdraws order on also open. lockdown guidelines keep­ from home should be fol­ workers, adequate gaps bet­ porate enterprises were also recorded on Sunday increased working hours The 33% restriction on ing in view the need to res­ lowed to the extent possible ween shifts, staggering the offered some relief via LUCKNOW workforce in offices has also tart economic activities. and staggered work hours lunch break of staff and so changes to the Insolvency SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Health Departments put the NEW DELHI The Uttar Pradesh been done away with. While metro systems, should be adopted in respect on,” the guidelines said. and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) nationwide tally at 95,622 government has withdrawn The decision to extend the domestic and international of all offices and other esta­ The MHA said the Aaro­ and the Companies Act. Maharashtra registered its cases and the death toll at its order increasing daily lockdown was taken after air travel continue to remain blishments. gya Setu mobile app is a po­ The total package highest single­day increase 3,021. With an increase of work shifts in manufacturing the National Disaster Man­ suspended, the new guide­ “There should be provi­ werful tool “to facilitate amounts to almost ₹21 lakh of 2,347 COVID­19 cases to 5,034 cases on Sunday, in­ units from 8 hours to 12 agement Authority (NDMA) lines allow plying of auto­ sion for thermal scanning, quick identification of per­ crore by the Centre’s ac­ take its overall tally to fections are now doubling hours. The Yogi Adityanath­ directed the Centre and the rickshaws, cab aggregators hand wash and sanitisers at sons infected by COVID­19 or counting, but is heavy on 33,053 and 1,198 deaths. every 13.8 days if data of led government had on May 8 State governments to conti­ and private taxis, subject to all entry and exit points and at risk of being infected, thus credit­related measures, in­ With 34 new deaths, Guja­ past seven days are consi­ passed a notification diluting nue the lockdown measures permission by local authori­ common areas; and all work acting as a shield for indivi­ cluding ₹8 lakh crore worth rat’s toll increased to 659. dered. This is among the fas­ the provisions of the to contain the spread of the ties. Special train services places and other sensitive lo­ duals and the community.” of liquidity enhancing mea­ Tamil Nadu registered 639 test in the list of countries Factories Act, 1948. novel coronavirus. The Na­ will continue to operate on cations are to be sanitised sures by the RBI. more cases, and its death with the highest number of NEWS Ī PAGE 8 tional Executive Committee limited routes. regularly. In work places, so­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 toll rose by four to take the infections. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD (NEC), chaired by Union The National Directives cial distancing would also MORE REPORTS ON Ī PAGES 2, 3, 4, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 tally to 79. EDUCATION PLUSĪ PAGE 11 Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, for COVID­19 Management need to be ensured through 8, 9, 10 MORE REPORTS ON Ī PAGE 8 Reports from the State CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY MONDAY, MAY 18, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Life in a hostel Sunalini Mathew Shinjini Ghosh From the initial New Delhi scramble to get here college campuses home before the should have seen hec­ lockdown was Keeping busy: (clockwise from above) Students at a men’s PG hostel Wtic end­of­year activity in Delhi University; Salma Wasi; Kiki Sakhile; students on the Shiv – farewells, exams, parties – announced to an Nadar University campus; students at Ashoka University working in these once bustling spaces are the kitchen garden * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA, SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT now mostly empty. The lock­ acceptance of the down has meant that academics situation, the few reign students because they are campus. have gone online, friends don’t worried about loved ones at Food has become a point of meet, and there’s a general students who home and vice versa. coming together. At night, Mr. sense of uncertainty. The few remain in Delhi’s Ms. Sakhile, who is the youn­ Namagiri (who heads the cuisine students who remain in hostels gest of three siblings, says it is club) and those in the hostel will across Delhi­NCR, speak of how hostels find ways to true that in the initial days there often assemble in the pantry they cope with long silences and cope and connect was a great deal of worry. that has an induction stove and short bursts of online “We were a bit concerned be­ a microwave. “We cook someth­ engagement. third year in management stu­ cause we didn’t know if we ing – last night it was pakoras at Hostellers have a double bur­ dies, says the initial weeks were would be told to vacate hostel. about 3.30.” den of being away from family tough, because Gautam Buddha There was also uncertainty be­ They are also making a short and not having friends around Nagar, where the university is, cause of the exams. I didn’t want film about the life on campus. either. “Currently, there are 35 was declared a hotspot. A week to go back home and then have It’s a time to look at the lives out of 600 people in our particu­ or so ago though, students were to return almost immediately,” of the support staff as well, some lar hostel and we are not really offered the option of leaving in she says. For many, with the of whom may not have a choice familiar with each other. So for State transport buses, but most long hot summer ahead, there’s about living on campus. Mr. Po­ our free time, I either depend on preferred to stay on campus. Fa­ still no clear plan. dipara talks of a woman guard walks with a friend from a diffe­ milies aren’t comfortable with Some students had to make who is using the opportunity to rent hostel or end up speaking students taking trains back harder choices though in the learn cycling, while another col­ to my parents back home,” says home either, fearing the quaran­ suddenness of the lockdown an­ league takes long walks as she Salma Wasi, a second­year Ph.D tine process or the possibility of nouncement. Cindy, at one of speaks on the phone to a loved scholar of modern history at Ja­ contracting the virus on the Delhi University’s North Cam­ one. waharlal Nehru University. Her journey. “The university has pus hostels, has a father with “I spend my free time clean­ parents in Samastipur, Bihar, made it clear that we can stay diabetes and a brother under ing my room, as it is therapeutic were initially very worried back and stay comfortable palliative care, in Imphal, Mani­ for me,” says Ms.