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Covid-19 lockdown: Transporting goods still a challenge despite govt orders
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NEW DELHI: The 21-day nationwide lockdown has disrupted the movement of goods across the value chain, notwithstanding the home ministry’s 29 March order allowing transportation of all goods - both essential and non-essential.
Reports of police high handedness to enforce the lockdown have not helped matters and resulted in shortage of delivery executives and labour for loading and unloading goods.
Closure of eating outlets along the highways have also discouraged drivers from taking to the roads. To put things in perspective, of the 12 lakh trucks with national permits that usually ply the highways at any given point of time, about 1.2 lakh are now ferrying goods, while 4-5 lakh trucks are parked on the national highways due to restrictions
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