Bakers flout norms, sell non-essential products

Deepankar Sharda

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 17

Despite the UT Administration issuing directions to supply only essential products during the lockdown period in the wake of the Covid-19 scare, some bakeries have been found selling non-essential products.

A Sector-35 based baker is selling cakes, which is a non-essential categorised product. Even food aggregators, including Zomato and Swiggy are also offering home delivery of cakes. They claim to pick up cakes from Sector 19 and industrial area-based bakeries. The Tribune team also possesses bill of a cake purchased from the Sector 35 outlet.

“Cakes are generally tagged as bakery products. Mainly, we are selling breads and identical products,” said a manager of the Sector-35 based outlet.

UT Adviser Manoj Parida said bakeries have been only allowed to sell breads.

“Food aggregators can only deliver ration and vegetables in Chandigarh. The Sector-35 based baker is only allowed to sell bread, not cakes. Violators will be punished,” said Parida.