pune the pune municipal corporation pmc on tuesday announced some relaxations in its breakthechain orders exempting firms involved in building basic it infrastructure data centres and cloud computing from the restrictions imposed to further curb the spread of covid19 cases and including pet shops and veterinary hospitals in the essential services categorya pmc official said petrol pumps and establishments dealing in petroleum products would also be in the essential services category the pmc had issued orders on april 5 to control the spread of covid19 an updated order was issued by adding some more essential services on tuesday pmc commissioner vikram kumar said the new directives will be effective from april 7 to 30 the latest order allows students appearing for various examinations to travel during the restricted hours 6pm7am friday to monday between home and examination centres they would however have to carry their hall tickets the order stated that people working in private firms in various shifts could travel in private or company vehicles but have to carry along office identity cards people reaching pune from other places would be allowed to go home but they would have to carry the travel tickets with them pune mahanagar parivahan mahamandal limited pmpml buses have been partially allowed to transport people in essential services pmpml will operate 41 buses on 20 routes from 6am to 9pm for people involved in essential services however people would be able to avail of the services by showing their identity cardsthe order included all cargo and courier services as well as government and private security services in the essential category fruit vendors and meat and eggs shops are also on the same list site offices of private builders and architecture firms will be allowed to operate from monday to friday between 7am and 6pm all the sites of metro rail in the pmc limits will continue to work micro finance services establishments under sebi and rbi and nonbanking financial firms can also operatethough the religious places have been kept closed the priests and people performing rituals in these places will be allowed entry the administration clarified that marriages already planned would be allowed within the restricted hours but an noc from a deputy commissioner or incidental commander and the police station concerned would be a must the district administration also issued an order on the same lines of the pmcs directivepimpri chinchwad police commissioner krishna prakash said the industrial units with 500 and more employees must have their own isolation centre and doctors people working in industries or involved in essential services must get vaccinated or they have to undergo rtpcr tests in accordance with the state governments orders we will check the certificates after april 10till tuesday afternoon liquor stores in pimpri chinchwad were open as the civic body was yet to issue an order most of the shops witnessed crowding of customers all the shops were closed after the pimpri chinchwad municipal corporation issued the orders with inputs from mihir tanksale