{"id":14486,"date":"2020-08-12T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2020-08-12T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:23:41","slug":"west-bengal-govt-withdraws-state-wide-lockdown-on-august-28-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=14486","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal govt withdraws state-wide lockdown on August 28 | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee-led <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/West-Bengal-government\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_West-Bengal-government\" frmappuse=\"1\">West Bengal government<\/a> on Wednesday withdrew the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/complete-lockdown\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_complete-lockdown\" frmappuse=\"1\">complete lockdown<\/a> on August 28 and imposed a curfew on August 20 instead. <br \/>The state government passed an order to this effect, saying the step was taken in response to various requests it had received. <br \/>As a result, the lockdown dates were once again revised to six days this month. This is the fourth time that the state government has revised the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" frmappuse=\"1\">coronavirus<\/a> lockdown dates for the month of August. <br \/>Hence, the statewide lockdown will only be observed on August 20, 21, 27 and 31. <br \/>According to the statement, the revision comes in view of difficulties cited by businesses and banking operators due to the consecutive two-day lockdown in the last week of August. <br \/>&#8220;Several communications have been received citing difficulty to conduct of businesses and banking operations because of the two-day lockdown on Thursday and Friday in the last week of August, followed by one-day lockdown on the following Monday. The state government has considered the requests for relaxation of lockdown,&#8221; the notification read. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/west-bengal-govt-withdraws-state-wide-lockdown-on-august-28\/articleshow\/77511672.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on Wednesday withdrew the complete lockdown on August 28 and imposed a curfew on August 20 instead. The state government passed an order to this effect, saying the step was taken in response to various requests it had received. As a result, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1597260222_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}