As India went into a 21-day lockdown from Wednesday, the Centre, states and local administrations scrambled to resolve disruptions in essential services – especially food and grocery e-tailers – with reports streaming in from different parts of the country of police obstructing, and even beating up, delivery boys – prompting e-comm majors Flipkart, BigBasket and Grofers to temporarily suspend services. This, despite the Union home ministry issuing an order on Tuesday evening, after the Prime Minister’s address to the nation, exempting "delivery of all essential goods including food, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment through e-commerce".
 

As India went into a 21-day lockdown from Wednesday, the Centre, states and local administrations scrambled to resolve disruptions in essential services – especially food and grocery e-tailers – with reports streaming in from different parts of the country of police obstructing, and even beating up, delivery boys – prompting e-comm majors Flipkart, BigBasket and Grofers to temporarily suspend services. This, despite the Union home ministry issuing an order on Tuesday evening, after the Prime Minister’s address to the nation, exempting "delivery of all essential goods including food, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment through e-commerce".