businesses are treading cautiously on resumption of operations at plants despite the government on friday signalling a graded opening up and allowing offices in even red zones to work at a third of their capacitywhile companies such as hyundai and tvs motor are planning to restart operations with a single shift other auto companies are expected to take more time to finalise plans with uncertainty looming large over supply of parts and availability of labour there is not much scope if the entire business ecosystem is not in place company executives saideven if we are able to produce what will we do with the manufactured goods if the dealerships are not open in large numbers we are not even sure about whether trucks will be allowed to pass through red zones into green zones to transport parts or finished products a senior executive at a leading twowheeler company in the delhincr region told toi advt with restrictions on opening shops businesses are worried this will not be of significant help why cant markets be allowed to open in green zones or even open periodically in orange zones said sandeep somany vicechairman at hindwareother problem is how the norms are implemented guidelines are complex and it remains to be seen how the risk profiling into green yellow and red zones and required protocols for these different zones will actually work in practice with so many major cities classified as red zones the overall resumption of economic activity will be relatively limited in the near term said godrej consumer products md and ceo vivek gambhirwe will wait and see what happens on the demand side basis on this assessment we will take a call on whether production should start immediately or in some more time we need to map supplier conditions as around 60 of them were estimated to be in the red zone when we last checked said naveen soni senior vp at toyota kirloskar motorshyundai motor india viceresident b c datta said the company will seek permission from the tamil nadu government to restart a plant which is in the red zonewe are awaiting the formal notification from respective state governments once we start it will take a couple of weeks or a little more to get the entire supply chain going and get to normal production levels said tvs motor co joint md sudarshan venu advt major cities being in red zone is also proving to be difficult for the corporate sector as bulk of the sales come from metros companies are also finding it tough to find manpower for loading goods and trucks to transport consignments a clear interpretation of the centres guidelines to permit manufacturing of relevant fmcg products is missing at the ground level said dabur india ed shahrukh khanbritannia md varun berry said barring west bengal most of its factories were operating in west bengal threetofour factories are not operating and if we get the clearances it will help us reach better capacitywe hope that