Ahead of Christmas: Less than 200 allowed to assemble in churches, says Gujarat govt
Similar guidelines have been issued for any function on New Year s eve and New Year in cities of Gujarat. December 23, 2020 10:38:45 pm
Celebration at Methodist Church in Maninagar area in Ahmedabad where 5,000 balloons were released in the sky on first morning of 2020. (Express photo: Javed Raja)
Ahead of Christmas, the state government on Wednesday evening announced fresh guidelines allowing less than 200 persons to assemble in the churches amid the Covid-19pandemic.
Similar guidelines have been issued for any function on New Year’s eve and New Year in cities of Gujarat. Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot will continue to undergo night curfews from 9 pm to 6 am everyday until further orders.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. (File Photo)
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said Wednesday that his government was committed to uprooting the menace of corruption from the system.
“We have introduced a culture of zero tolerance towards corruption in our work system due to which for more than last two decades, we have been able to give ‘sushasan’ (good governance) to the people and ensure that not a single paisa of the public goes to waste. In Gujarat, we have brought all departments, including mining, revenue and urban development, under digitalisation to bring transparency and weed out corruption through our single-window clearance policy,” Rupani said. He was addressing a virtual meet organised by the Gujarat ACB on International Anti-Corruption Day.