“The Centre has asked us to allow jute mills to function. We are allowing all the mills to operate with 15 per cent workforce on alternate days,” Mamata Banerjee said. For the past few days, Delhi has been prodding Nabanna into exempting the jute mills from the provisions of the lockdown. The new guidelines allow jute mills to operate with “staggered shifts and social distancing”. Since the price of jute bags is fixed, there will be no recovery either,” said Raghavendra Gupta, chairman of the Indian Jute Mills Association.

Source: The Telegraph April 15, 2020 22:07 UTC