With eased prohibitory orders, when and which days these services, activities remain open?

KATHMANDU, June 20: The three district administrations offices (DAOs) in the Kathmandu Valley have decided to extend the ongoing restriction orders, which were put in place starting April 29, by one more week and enforce until June 28 midnight. 

The DAOs of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur districts decided to review the current modality and enforce eased orders starting from Tuesday, said Prem Prasad Bhattarai, CDO of Bhaktapur. 

With the eased restrictions, the local administrations will allow private vehicles and taxi services  on an odd-even system. Similarly, other shops and stores ranging from departmental stores to clothing shops, hardware stores to automobile showrooms, kitchen utensil stores to electronic stores, etc will be allowed  to remain open in particular hours on specific days. 

Shops  and stores such as jewellery shops, kitchen utensil stores, electronic and home appliances stores, automobiles (showroom and spare part) stores, mobile and computer shops will remain open on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday between 11 AM and 4 PM. 

Similarly, departmental stores (excluding grocery section), shopping malls, sports items shops, gift items shops, clothing stores and tailoring shops will be allowed to open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 11 AM and 4 PM. 

Grocery stores and grocery sections of the departmental stores, stationery shops, fruits and vegetable stores, shops selling cooking gas, water and dairy products will also remain open until 11 AM as usual.