We'll soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... The Maharashtra government in its latest guidelines announced a state-wide lockdown from 8:00 pm on April 14 to 7:00 am on May 1. While it included e-commerce in the essential services category, these companies would be allowed to deliver “only essential goods and services”. “Letters are being sent to the Maharashtra government and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) requesting that restrictions don’t carve out distinctions between essential and non-essential goods and services, because people who are stuck at home need access to everything,” said a person aware of the development. “These representations being made by FICCI, CII and Nasscom will essentially say that the MHA after an initial phase of attempting to allow only the sale of essentials through e-commerce, permitted the sale of everything in May last year. and that’s what should be followed even now,” the person cited above said on the condition of anonymity.