While the flip-flop on e-commerce seems arbitrary, caution is best throughout a pandemic
The Centre’s last-minute reversal of its decision to permit e-commerce business to resume shipments of ‘non-essential products’, as part of an relieving of the lockdown curbs, is welcome offered that India is still not out of the woods in its pandemic battle. On Sunday, the House Ministry directed States to guarantee that the motion of lorries utilized by e-commerce operators for transferring non-essentials be ‘omitted’ from the list of extra activities that would be enabled from April 20 to alleviate public hardship.
