Central government sets up Control room to monitor delivery of essential services

The Centre has set up a control room to monitor the status of transportation along with delivery of goods, manufacturing and essential commodities to the public.

Accordingly, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has set up the control room to monitor on "real time" basis the status of delivery.

The facility will also monitor the difficulties being faced by various stakeholders during the lockdown period.

"In the event of any manufacturing, transporter, distributor, wholesaler or e-commerce companies facing ground level difficulties in transport and distribution of goods or mobilization of resources, the same may be informed to this Department...," the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement.

This department can be approached at its New Delhi number 23062487.