4,000 industrial units resume operation in non-urban areas of Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Thousands of permitted industrial units in non-urban areas of Gujarat have resumed their operations today after district administration’s nod.

According to Aswani Kumar, Secretary in Chief Minister’s office, as many as 4,000 industrial units have resumed operations today.

Of this 750 units are located in Kutch, 700 in Ahmedabad, 600 in Rajkot, 450 in Bharuch, 400 in Junagadh, 400 in Morbi, 200 in Vadodara and 150 in Surat district.

These units need to follow all instructions and guidelines mandated by the government such as stagger entry, stagger exit, stagger lunch time, thermal gun temperature checking at entry points, 12-hour shift, sanitization, social distancing and masks wearing compliance, in-campus stay facility for labourers or transportation and more.

Secretary, CMO said ceramic industries in Morbi, engineering units in Rajkot and Kutch, oil units, chemical units in Bharuch, automobile cluster in Sanand etc have resumed functioning. A Japanese organization JETRO has thanked the State government for speedy resumption of industrial units and proactive permission for the same granted by district administrations.

Industrial limits located within the limits of 8 Municipal Corporations and over 150 municipalities are not permitted for reopening.

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