mumbai most shops along prominent roads will remain shut on sundays and open for business on alternate days in view of covid19 outbreak a day after municipal commissioner praveen pardeshi issued a circular for crowd control in the city by directing that shops be closed on city roads on alternate days almost all civic ward offices listed names of stretches in their respective areas where shops will be allowed to operate on alternate days meanwhile shops closed in parts of south mumbai such as fashion street cst subway and churchgate too bandra corporator asif zakeria said the bmcs move to socially distance people is good in such a situation bandra and khar witness a lot of floating population as there is hill road and linking road which are shopping hubs we will support the move as it is for the wellbeing of mumbaikars civic officials said inspectors of the shops and establishments department as well as police officers would initiate penal action in case of violation of the order a commercial shutdown was effected in thane vasaivirar navi mumbai kalyandombivli and ulhasnagar on thursday too tmc mayor naresh mhaske directed the civic administration to shut all roadside food carts and weekly bazaars till further notice starting thursday all shops in the main thane market area will shut for three days till sundaywine shops across palghar district were closed two restaurantcumbars in vasai that remained open despite the order were booked under disaster management act the ulhasnagar municipal corporation ordered owners of shops factories and other commercial establishment to down shutters for three days from thursday kalyandombivli municipal corporation ordered shops to shut till march 31 inputs by pradeep gupta manoj badgeri nishikant karlikar vijay singh