Mamata announces lockdown dates for Sept, green signals Kolkataa

Kolkata, Aug 26 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on Wednesday announced lockdown dates for the month of September.Banerjee said that the strategy of observing partial lockdown would continue till September 20 across the state."The new lockdown dates are September 7, 11 and 12. We will once again review the situation after September 20 and take the next call," Banerjee told mediapersons after a cabinet meeting at the state secretariat Nabanna.She said that flight operations from six hotspot locations, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad, would partially resume from September 1."Flight operations can partly resume from September 1. We have no problem if they operate from Kolkata airport three days a week," the CM said. She said that Kolkata Metro Rail can also resume operations maintaining proper Covid-19 guidelines."Both Kolkata Metro service and local trains can start operation maintaining physical distancing protocols. If the railways wants to talk to us, we are ready. We have no problem now," she said, adding that the state government would hold its next cabinet meeting on September 10.
--IANS sbn/arm