pune malls in the city are unlikely to follow the closure call by the shopping centres association of india scai with the governments modified guidelines mandating the facilities to operate only with the fully vaccinated staff the clarification came from sources among pune malls after an official statement by the scai on tuesday announced closure of the facilities in maharashtra till their staffers were fully vaccinatedthe scai said in the statement that due to the maharashtra governments modified guidelines on the restraining mall staffers from returning to workplace unless they were fully vaccinated a gap 14 days after the second dose malls across the state have decided to close down advt with the prevailing restrictions the malls will not be able to open and operate as it would be at least a month tentatively septemberend before a sizeable number of our staff gets their second dose and meets the criteria provided the vaccine is available and there is no shortage the scai said in the statementtwo days after resuming operations most major malls in mumbai downed shutters on tuesday over their inability to comply with the mandate to use fully vaccinated staff representative of a top punebased mall told toi pune malls have so far not received any communication from scai and will continue operations till further notice the scais announcement is only applicable to mumbai malls where as other districts like aurangabad pune nagpur nashik have reported no such issuesthe representative of another major mall in pune told toi we are open as of now until we officially hear something from the association we cannot take a call on closure as far as we know all malls will be operational in the city another source from a mall in the city said in pune most malls are likely to be operational by neha madaan tnn published on aug 18 2021 at 1224 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app malls pune pune malls mumbai malls covid vaccine homenewspune malls unlikely to take part in closure call for now