NEW DELHI / AGARTALA, March 22 (TIWN): Tripura Government has issued warning to all the businessmen not to attempt to stock illegal food grains with ill motive as with the lockdown chances are pronounced a section of businessmen have started gathering items in secret stocks leading blackmarketing probabilities. Calling a press conference, Chief Minister Biplab Deb has said the same on yesterday. He said, state has enough food stocks and thus nothing to be panicked. Along with many states, Tripura is also observing “Janata Curfew” at 100% success. Cutting across party lines, chief ministers and others leaders urged the people to follow the self-imposed curfew from 7 am to 9 pm, noting that "social distancing" was key to breaking the chain of infection, as the number of coronavirus cases rose to 283 after 60 new cases were detected on Saturday, the highest so far in a day, and states like Maharashtra, Odisha and Bihar imposed partial lockdown till month end. No passenger train will originate from any railway station in the country from midnight to 10 pm on Sunday while all suburban train services will be reduced to a bare minimum as well. Metro services, including in Delhi, will remain suspended for the day.

Traders' body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has announced that they will keep their establishments shut across the country on Sunday.

From suspending regular prayers involving large gatherings in shrines of various faiths, including Sunday mass, to disallowing jail inmates from meeting their families on the day, organisations and institutions in every sphere have announced restrictions for Sunday.