nagpur after approval from the state government nagpur municipal corporation nmc and collector office have allowed water sports and amusement parks to restart these activities were closed down in march after the district started to register positive cases of covid19municipal commissioner radhakrishnan b on wednesday issued circular allowing water sports including boating and other water activities he also permitted entertainment or amusement parks including indoor entertainment activities tourism and similar places in the citythe operators and visitors will have to follow standard operating procedures sops issued by the government the government had issued the order in this regard on december 23collector office had allowed water sports in rural areas from december 15 which was well before approval came from the government then permission was reportedly given to entertainment or amusement parks after governments ordera majority of these activities are situated in rural areasinfectious diseases specialist dr nitin shinde told toi it is a welcome move we should now move on to normal life now we are having significant knowledge about transmission and treatment of this disease all economic activities are required to be rolled out this pandemic is not going to end soon but while removing restrictions there is also need to have rapid roll out of vaccines which is the only way to handle this disease operators and people will have to strictly follow sops of the government which are very necessary to contain the spread of the diseaseafter receiving governments order the civic chief also issued circular extending lockdown till january 31 2021