NEW DELHI : The nationwide lockdown has disrupted the movement of goods across the value chain, with continued restrictions along highways and waterways.
Despite the home ministry’s 29 March order to allow the movement of all goods, both essential and non-essential products, besides similar directions by eight states, movement of commercial vehicles continues to be a challenge with police personnel manning the check posts preventing inter-state and intra-state movement of goods. “Even as eight states, including Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and West Bengal, among others, put out a notification that the movement of goods should not be disrupted, policemen in some states are stopping vehicles carrying essential goods in transit," All India