kolkata with rising footfalls in the runup to the durga puja festival the authorities of shopping malls in the city are taking all health safety measures including the use of ultraviolet rays to sanitise elevators and handrails in the wake of the covid19 pandemic officials said on wednesdaythey also felt that strict adherence to safety guidelines has helped them attract visitorsleading shopping malls such as acropolis south city and quest are currently experiencing a surge in footfalls ahead of durga puja and expecting that number of visitors will further rise with multiplexes reopening from thursday advt we are careful about safety protocols since the reopening of our mall and diligently following all the guidelines we will allow people up to 50 per cent of our standard capacity of around 50000 acropolis head k vijayan told ptiaround 25 washbasins have been installed outside the mall and no one is allowed to enter the premises without a mask he saidstrict vigil on enforcement of the guidelines helped us attract people around 3500 permanent and outsourced employees also remain safe no one among our staffers has been detected with the disease till now vijayan saidsouth city mall has witnessed a 2030 per cent jump in footfall in recent weeks and is also concentrating on the frequent sanitisation of common touchpoints an official saidthe shopping destination in the southern part of the city recorded over 40000 footfalls on sundaywe are also displaying boards and video messages about health safety guidelines and asking all store employees and security officials to maintain social distancing norms south city head manmohan bagree saidquest mall vp sanjiv mehra said following the health safety protocols is their highest prioritywe are not much concerned about the crowd with around 30 per cent footfall it may go up to 50 per cent as the festive days near he saidwith increasing retail sales the mall authorities are witnessing higher conversion rate the percentage of people that walk in and make a purchase as compared to that of last year advt compared to the prepuja period in 2019 sales at food courts were up by 25 per cent this year bagree saidaccording to them festival advances to government employees and puja bonus to many private entities will further boost consumer spending pti published on oct 15 2020 at 1150 am 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 retail malls cinema halls safety guidelines kolkata mall durga puja consumer spending homenewskolkata malls focus on safety protocols to