Apply online for passes for cooks, house help: Corpn

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Chennai:4.5.2020

People employed as house help and cooks can return to work from Monday, but will need to apply for a pass from the Greater Chennai Corporation.

The civic body’s commissioner G Prakash on Sunday announced that those employing domestic help and cooks can apply for passes online at tnepass.tnega.org.

Apart from this, self-employed workers such as plumbers, electricians, airconditioner servicemen, carpenters, home care providers for people with special needs and others can also apply for permission through the same website, GCC informed through a press release.

Meanwhile, shops selling essential goods can function from 6am to 5pm. E-commerce service providers handling food and essential commodities can deliver as per the time already permitted. Restaurants will be allowed to function from 6am to 9pm.

Prakash also announced that all construction activities in the city can start from Monday, but only with workers staying in-situ (within the construction site). Proper precautions like masks and social distancing will have to be followed. However, this doesn’t apply to sites which are in containment zones.

SEZ, EOU, export units, import export companies after due inspection and approval by the commissioner can be started with 25% of the workforce. IT and IT-enabled services will be allowed to function only with 10% of workforce (minimum 20 employees). The employees should travel only in vehicles operated by the respective organisations. The companies can apply for travel passes on the same website.

Shops selling construction, hardware, cement, construction material, sanitary ware and electrical items shall be allowed from 9am to 5pm. Shops dealing in servicing mobile phones, selling other electronics, motors, spectacles and household appliances will be permitted to function from 10am to 5pm.

The corporation has sent notices to around 750 marriage halls in the city saying they will be converted into quarantine centres if needed.