pune on monday citizens woke up to another day of confusion over multiple orders issued by enforcement authorities citizens said that they were being taken for a ride due to the lack of coordination among the various authorities and demanded that all of them must come together and issue a single order categorically specifying its relevance to pune city limitssushma dey a b t kawade road resident said by the time the government order has made rounds of social media groups and has been interpreted another order from the local authorities is circulated and with no time the police also issue another order what is wrong with the local authorities they should conduct a meeting among themselves and frame the rules why does the civic body district collector and police need to have different rulesmost traders except those operating grocery shops were confused about reopening their establishments as pune municipal corporation had one set of rules while police another as confusion prevailed in most parts of the city on monday shopkeepers selling nonessentials sought clarifications as to which shops could remain open and their timings forcing the federation of trade associations of pune ftap to appeal to all shopowners and traders to keep their shops closed until further clarity was received from the authoritiesso many orders have come out and everything is so confusing the authorities are asking us to open shops but all the roads are closed there are restrictions on travel the first orders said shops will be open then the orders said shops will be closed and then another set of orders said 5 shops can remain open we are going to meet the collector on tuesday to urge him to deliberate with other authorities and issue a single notification until then we have urged all our members to keep their shops shut ftap president fatehchand ranka said while the government orders permitted opening of five nonessential category shops in each lane of noncontainment areas there werent any further guidelines which kept shopkeepers guessing as to whether they could open the shops or notshopkeepers and citizens have demanded further clarity on the matter so that businesses could resume operation the current orders are extremely ambiguous as they say five nonessential shops can open most lanes in pune have more than five shops which five shops can open can a clothing store open or an electronic store there was a need for clear guidelines and a plan of action to ease the restrictions rather than a random notification prasanna parmar a resident of shankarsheth road saidall shops on fergusson college road remained shut on monday as members of the fc road traders association were in a state of confusion whether they could open their shops or nothowever several shops dealing in electronics devices and clothes opened in karvenagar ganeshnagar and navsahyadari area we will keep the shop open till 6pm in line with the guidelines an electronics stores owner from the karve road saidwhile areas including deccan law