mohali the virusforced discipline in the district disappeared in the morning as vegetable meat liquor and grocery shops opened despite curfew requiring police to shut these after complaints of crowding reached subdivisional magistrates sdmstwo shops in phase i five in kharar three in derabassi and seven in zirakpur were open till 9am until the cops came down and booked some of the shopkeepers people bought household articles mohali deputy commissioner girish dayalan said i got to know in the morning and sent sdms to the spot with raiding parties shops were also closed in mullanpur and owners warned to wait for official relaxationresidents said they were forced to come out after running short of milk groceries vegetables and other kitchen items during the lockdown they also believed that they will not get any relaxation in the coming daysto ensure doortodoor supplies of food milk and medicines through hawkers and street vendors the deputy commissioner has issued special pass to small dairies and milkmen prepacked potato onion tomato and cauliflower will reach people on carts during the dayaccepting shortcoming in supply the dc said there were reports that some areas remained underserved and some of the mobile phones of those responsible were not functionalthe citys usual milk supply of 65000 liters fell to about 45000 on wednesday as some distributors refused taking orders at the last moment over fear of nonpayment since banks are closed the administration placed orders for 70000 liters which is more than the normal supplysmaller dairies and milkmen have received their curfew passes and tankers of unutilized milk were sent for processing into powdered milk to ensure continued collection from dairy farmers the dc expects all areas to be much better served on thursday