Covid-19 lockdown: DPIIT flags a long list of industries that need to open

DPIIT's letter batted for the reopening of manufacturing units in a long list of sectors

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has flagged a long list of industries that need to open soon in a letter to the Home Ministry.

“It is felt that certain more activities with reasonable safeguards should be allowed once a final decision regarding extension and the nature of lockdown has been taken by central government,” DPIIT Secretary Guruprasad Mohapatra told Home Affairs Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla in the April 11 letter.

With industry bodies increasingly becoming impatient at the ongoing lockdown and confusion over