Factories back after partial lifting of India lockdown


A worker wearing a protective mask operates a tape cutting machine while producing adhesive sealing tapes at the Ajit Industries Pvt. factory in Sonipat district, Haryana, India, on Monday, April 20, 2020. India’s industrialists are tentatively reopening their factories.

NEW DELHI: India’s industrialists are tentatively reopening their factories, as the government eases the world’s biggest lockdown to revive an economy that was slowing even before the coronavirus outbreak.

Ajit Gupta, managing director of Ajit Industries Pvt, spent most of Monday supervising sanitisation of his factory near the border of Delhi, which produces adhesive tapes used to insulate electric wires, package goods, or protect fridges and other electronics during transport.

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