Essential Services List 2024
Essential services for all areas include reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health, prevention and management of communicable diseases, treatment for chronic diseases to avoid complications, and addressing emergencies. Non-Covid services such as health promotion activities, IEC campaigns, meetings of the Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees/Mahila Arogya Samitis, community based screening for chronic conditions, other screening programmes, etc. could be deferred and undertaken after lockdown/restrictions are lifted.
Essential services and activities such as healthcare services, police, fire, banks, electricity, water and sanitation, regulated movement of public transport including all incidental services and activities needed for a smooth functioning of these activities shall continue.
Essential Services List 2024 (Updated)
- Supply of Groceries (wholesalers and retailers)
- Supply of Fresh fruits and vegetables (mandis and retailers)
- Supply of drinking water
- Dispensing of petrol, diesel at designated pumps
- Milk shops and dairies and related products
- Food processing units
- Supply of cattle feed and fodder
- Medicines and other pharmaceuticals (retailers, wholesalers and manufacturing)
- Banks and ATMs
- Supply of LPG (domestic and commercial)
- Health services (including movement of staff thereof)
- Manufacturing of health and medical equipment
- Telecom operators and their designated agencies
- Newspapers
- Post offices
- Loading and unloading of Wheat and Rice at FCI and State Food depots.
- Transportation of essential commodities through National and State Highways (Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene, Milk, Vegetables, Fruits, groceries, FC1 supplies etc.)
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