hyderabad after resisting pressure for a lockdown from different quarters for more than a month the telangana government on tuesday finally gave in and ordered a lockdown for 10 days from wednesday morning the decision to shut down till may 21 was taken in the cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister k chandrasekhar raowith this telangana has become the last state in the southern india to go for lockdown karnataka tamil nadu kerala and andhra pradesh have already imposed full or partial lockdowns the telangana cabinet will again meet on may 20 to take a decision whether to continue lockdownunder the new guidelines only a handful of facilities have been told to shut completely these include cinema halls swimming pools clubs gyms amusement parks and sports stadiaan official statement said relaxation will be given daily between 6 am and 10 am allowing all shops to open public transport like the rtc buses and metro and also liquor shops will be open during these hours government offices will work with 33 staff banks and atms would function normallyecommerce services like home delivery for essentials food medical equipment have been exempted from the curfew it and itenabled services including telecom postal services and internet too have been exemptedearlier in the day the telangana high court had said that there was a talk of lockdown being imposed after eid was celebrated on december 14 the judges had said that if the state was to shut to reduce the impact of the second wave of covid19 the decision should be taken immediately by afternoon the government had informed the court that the cabinet had decided on shutdownsources said that so far kcr was reluctant to impose a lockdown in the state and even went on record that it would impact the livelihood of crores of people especially workers and labours apart from hitting the state revenues he was of the opinion that there was no improvement in the states which had gone for lockdown for the past few weekskeeping this in view the cabinet decided to continue paddy procurement in the centres and exempted all fertilizer and seeds shops all agriculture and allied sectors like rice mills warehousing cold storage transportation of paddythe state government also decided to give exemption to all emergency services such as medical shops hospitals panchayat raj and municipal services to take up sanitation drives drinking water supply and power supply the state government offices are also allowed to function with 33 of their strengthapart from the lockdown the cabinet asked chief secretary somesh kumar to ensure that all essential medicines required for treatment of covid19 patients including remdesivir and oxygen supplies are available for both government and private hospitals kcr spoke to the manufacturers of remdesivir over phone from the cabinet meeting and asked them to cooperate with the state government and supply more vials