You are Aditi / Aditya. You are shocked to see people flouting the rules of social distancing while purchasing essential items like vegetables, groceries, medicine, milk etc. Though there is a complete lockdown, and limited hours are in place, yet the sight of overcrowding in the vegetable markets and many without face masks, bothers you. You are forced to ask if the purpose, for which a lockdown has been imposed, is being defeated. As a responsible citizen write to a letter to the Editor of a National Daily expressing your concern.
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With the administration trying hard for effectively implementing lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the general public seems to be unconcerned about the need for social distancing, which is crucial at this hour, in Hubballi.
Vegetable and grocery markets, which have been allowed to do business by the district administration till 10 a.m. in the day, witnessed the negligence of the people of the city in adhering to social distancing norms.
Despite an appeal by the administration, and also appeals by police personnel on duty, visitors to the market hardly adhered to the three-feet social distancing norm. At the Janata Bazaar in Hubballi, only a few grocery shops had the markings.
And, at the vegetable market there were no markings at all. People congregated, parked vehicles and bargained with the vegetable vendors just like they used to do earlier standing or sitting very close to other buyers. Such was the crowd that the police personnel on duty could do nothing.
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