Chennai: Residents of Puducherry and outsiders were in for a shock today, as the Union Territory administration implemented total lockdown today, just a day after removing the e-pass system.
The government led by Chief Minister Narayanasamy has been implementing total lockdown on Tuesdays to ‘check the spread of coronavirus’. However, people were under the impression that there would not be lockdown today since e-pass system itself was removed since yesterday.
But, much to their shock, total lockdown was implemented from this morning. On Sunday, the Puducherry government announced discontinuing the e-pass system with immediate effect.
This came a day after the Centre’s directives to all States that there should not be any restriction on inter-State and intra-State movement of persons and goods. Issuing a notification in this regard, the UT administration said the e-passes are not required to travel to and from Puducherry.