As the capital has gradually opened up in the last two weeks the number of people on the streets, at the markets and in offices has gone up as has the number of prosecutions for violations of Covid guidelines. On June 7, when the second phase of the lockdown relaxations came into effect 3,366 fines of Rs. 2,000 each were levied by the nearly 250 enforcement teams to those not wearing masks, not maintaining distancing or spitting in public. On June 13, the figure had climbed 45% to 4,884 booking, as per Delhi government figures. According to sources, close to 5,000 challans were issued on monday when further relaxations came into effect. In May, when delhi was in lockdown a total of 77,715 challans were issued, an average of 2,670 a day. With manufacturing units and construction sites allowed to operate from May 31, the first week of june saw 20,966 chalans issued 3,870 a day on average. "Our focus on the first wo to three days after the relaxations on June 7 was on dissemination of information and creating awareness rather than stringent penalties for voilations. "A district offical said. "However our enforcement teams were deployed to keep a hawk eye on markets, malls, office complexes and other public places and the number of bookings started going up. The official added most of the violations are detected in the markets, which have the highest number of people gathering. Our teams are also keeping a close watch near liquor vends but no major violations have been noticed. We have also deployed teams at major intersections and at places where the pedestrians cross roads. The district official claimed that the monitoring teams were extremely vigilant and were also visting all places where crowding was a regular occurrence, apart from the more obvious places like office complexes.
