"The public authority has given new SOPs for public spots, marketplaces and different exercises which will be carried out from Monday (tomorrow)," he said.
As indicated by the notice, which will stay in power until March 29, all business habitats will be shut by 6pm while no business will be permitted on Saturdays and Sundays.
It said clinical benefits, drug stores, assortment focuses and research facilities will stay open nonstop and seven days per week. Likewise, basic food item and general stores, flour chakkis, products of the soil shops, ovens and petroleum siphons will likewise stay unaffected.
The new timetable won't matter to tire cut shops, filling plants, workshops, spare-part shops and shops selling agrarian hardware and apparatus.
As per the notice, just 50% staff will work every day at both government and private workplaces while indoor and open air marriage lobbies and public venues will stay shut from March 15.
Additionally, indoor eating will be carefully be disallowed at bistros and cafés; just takeaways will be permitted. It said just 50 people will be permitted at social and strict get-togethers while altars and film corridors will remain totally shut. There will be no access to parks and other sporting spots after 6pm.
The appointee official said brokers and business local area had been accepted. "We won't compel merchants to close shops on March 14 (today) however [next Sunday and Saturday] will be off for them."
However, dealers dismissed the new timings and said Ramazan was approaching and they won't follow up on the public authority mandate.
"We will follow the timings gave for Islamabad by the national government as the timings gave by the Punjab government would hamper business exercises in the post city," Rawalpindi Traders Association President Sharjeel Mir told Dawn.
He said markets and marketplaces in Islamabad would stay open till late around evening time however "in Rawalpindi we are being approached to close all shops by 6pm. It isn't adequate for us
