Grocery shops to operate only for 4 hours every day: Maharashtra Health Minister April 19, 2021 Notification will be issued soon, says Rajesh Tope The Maharashtra government will issue a notification that grocery shops will function only between 7 am to 11 am every day said State Health Minister Rajesh Tope. Speaking to reporters in Mumbai after attending a meeting convened by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Tope said, “ It is must to keep a tab on people who come out of homes in the name of purchasing grocery. Dada ( Ajit Pawar) said that we must keep grocery shops open only for four hours between 7 am to 11 am. It was decided that the notification regarding this decision will be issued at the upper level ( at State government’s level) and not at District Collector’s level,” said Tope.