Malls in Mangaluru to reopen from Monday
Mangaluru: All the Shopping malls in the city will reopen on Monday, following the lockdown relaxation, with precautionary measures against Covid-19.
The owners of Forum Fiza, City Centre, Bharat and other malls in the city have said that several guidelines for such security will be followed, including those regarding touch points for customers, wearing face masks and compulsorily using sanitiser at the entrance. The customers will undergo thermal scanning before entering the malls. In addition, the customers will have to ensure they have downloaded the Arogya Sethu app.
Aravind Srivastava, general manager of the Forum Fiza mall, said, “We have put marks at the lift entrances to ensure maintenance of social distance by customers. The cash counters, escalators where contact is unavoidable, the card swiping machines, seats, hand bags, and trolleys will be sanitized at every shop.”
Mallikarjun, manager of the Bharat Mall, said, “The mall is being opened following the government guidelines. The customers should give preference to hygiene. Places have been specified for customers to sit on the mall premises. Boards with information of various sorts too have been put for the convenience of the customers.”
Nishitha, manager of the City Centre Mall, said that it is more than two months since the government forbade the opening of the mall. “Now, we have been permitted to open the mall with several guidelines. We have taken all kinds of security measures and request the customers to cooperate with us.”
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Adityanath meets Singapore Deputy PM; assures investors of biz-focussed policies in UP
Singapore/Lucknow (PTI): Uttar Pradesh is ready with land bank, business-focused policies and safety and security, Chief Minister Adityanath told investors in Singapore on Tuesday on a day he met the country's top leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong.
On the second day of his official visit to Singapore, Adityanath met the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong, and Coordinating Minister for National Security and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, official sources said here.
Held in the presence of a high-level delegation, the discussions focused on leveraging Singapore's expertise in urban planning, internal security architecture and digital governance to help Uttar Pradesh achieve the target of becoming a one-trillion-dollar economy.
During talks with Gan Kim Yong, the chief minister emphasised on UP's pro-business environment and highlighted the state's vast land bank and improved connectivity expected from after the Noida International Airport becomes operational.
The meeting also explored the possibility of Singaporean companies establishing industrial townships in the Delhi-NCR, with particular focus on semiconductor manufacturing and green hydrogen modules.
During his interaction with K Shanmugam, Adityanath discussed modernisation of the state's law and order framework, with emphasis on Singapore's technology-integrated policing model and disaster management protocols.
Speaking to investors, Adityanath listed infrastructure, logistics, MROs among other projects in the pipeline in the state, and said he held more than 100 meetings with the business community during his visit to Singapore.
The UP CM also noted that Singapore investors were committed to a large number of projects in India and UP, including the Ganga Expressway.
Business leaders Adityanath met included CEO and chairpersons of Temasek, Government Investment Corp (GIC), Singapore Airport Terminal Services, and Blackstone.
