Masks must be worn even if driving by order / alone, otherwise ...
From today, car drivers will be required to wear masks. You have to wear a mask even if you are alone in the car. The declarations of the Commissioner of Police will be strictly enforced. If you are caught without a mask, you will have to pay a fine.
- Car drivers must wear masks
- Mask is mandatory even if you are alone in the car
- If you are caught without a mask, you will have to pay a fine
Just last week, the government filed a reply in a Delhi court swearing that a single person in a car would not be required to wear a mask. Following the Centre's affidavit, there has been a lot of controversy over such a declaration. There is a discrepancy between the affidavit of the Center and the declaration of the Commissioner of Police.
If a driver and passengers are caught without a mask, both will be charged a fixed fine. The state Home Department has made it mandatory to wear masks in public places, workplaces, while traveling.
Drivers of four wheeler-rickshaw-taxi-cab-government-private vehicles are required to wear masks even if they are traveling alone. Earlier in May 2020, by order of the Home Department-Gujarat government, if there was only one person driving a four-wheeler while traveling, he was exempted from covering his face during the journey.
Rickshaw pullers, taxi-cab drivers, drivers of government-private vehicles and passengers will now be required to wear masks. Now the order of the Department of Health and Family Welfare dated August 2020 has been finalized.
