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The record
- Jurisdiction
- India (Union)
- Level
- Foreign government
- Authority
- Disaster Management Act, 2005, s. 10(2)(l); Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897
- Issued
- 2020-03-24 Mar. 24, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-25 for 21 days (read as 2020-03-25)
- End
- 2020-05-31 (national lockdown; staged industrial reopening outside containment zones permitted from Apr. 20, 2020 under the consolidated guidelines of Apr. 15, 2020); containment-zone lockdowns and state orders continued (read as 2020-05-31)
- In force
- Mar. 25, 2020 to May 31, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineSupply chain
- Addressees
- all ministries, state governments, commercial, private and industrial establishments, transport services
- Functions reached
- SC Indian active pharmaceutical ingredients, generics, textiles, auto components, IT services
- TR
- CB
- Collection
- Foreign governments' orders (context) FOR
Operative words
Scanned order (text layer empty). Per the MHA Guidelines and the MHA press release of Mar. 24-26, 2020: government offices, commercial, private and industrial establishments 'shall remain closed' except essential categories (including manufacturing of drugs, pharmaceuticals and medical devices and their inputs); all transport services suspended.
Enforcement
Disaster Management Act ss. 51-60; IPC s. 188
Notes
India supplies a large share of U.S. generic drugs and APIs (the United States' own supply-chain review discusses the API dependence, Ex. ECO-A-101);
Retrieval noteThe Ministry's own scanned order (existence, issuer, number and date verified from the document); operative text machine-unreadable, gist from secondary sources.