Chandigarh lockdown news: Today's updates from your city

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Chandigarh.
*A PIL has been filed in Punjab and Haryana high court seeking to quash the education department order of May 18 which seeks to direct school students and their parents to pay fee by May 31, which falls within the lockdown period, as demanded by private unaided schools.
**Update at 1.20pm | We have started bookings for domestic flights: Air India
Indian airlines to operate a total of 8,428 flights each week for the next three months from May 25 to August 25, after Central government announced the resumption of domestic flights, amid coronavirus lockdown
*In view of the emergent situation arising due to the Covid-19 crisis across the country, Panjab University vice-chancellor Prof Raj Kumar has given permission to conduct viva-voce of M.Phil and Ph.D. students through Skype or any other online method in their respective departments.
*ANI update at 11.52am: Special repatriation flight carrying 116 passengers from Vancouver in Canada reached Punjab's Amritsar today.

*Perturbed with people rampantly violating home quarantine norms, the Punjab government has decided to double the isolation period of erring individuals. Habitual offenders will be shifted to state quarantine facilities on payment basis, besides facing legal action and monetary penalty.
*As part of the Air India’s overseas evacuation plan, the first flight will arrive at Chandigarh International Airport from Ukraine on Friday. The next flight, scheduled to land in Chandigarh on May 30, will be from the USA.
*Update at 9.44am: Death toll due to Covid-19 rises to 3,583; cases climb to 1,18,447 in India, says Union health ministry
*ANI update at 5.07am: A special repatriation flight carrying Indian nationals from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia arrived at Sri Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport in Punjab's Amritsar

*A comprehensive E Survey conducted by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Dev Samaj College of Education (DSCE), Sector 36 revealed that 90.2% teachers in Chandigarh and Punjab are taking online classes for the first time. The research based survey was done to study the challenges faced by teachers during online teaching amid Covid-19. The study took into account a sample size of 3,550 teachers from government, recognized private and government aided private schools of Chandigarh and Punjab. The sample size consisted of 38.6% primary teachers (PTs), 33.9% trained graduate teachers (TGTs) and 27.5% post graduate teachers (PGTs).
*The Haryana government has defined six parameters for categorisation of districts into red zone on the basis of nature of Covid-19 outbreak in those areas — more than 200 active cases, over 15 cases of Covid-19 per one lakh population, less than 14 days of doubling cases, fatality rate higher than 6%, number of tests less than 65 per one lakh population and more than 6% sample positive rate in the district.
*Even as guidelines on discharge of asymptomatic Covid-19 positive patients have been revised in Punjab based on the Union health ministry’s decision, there is also a shift in strategy on testing contacts of the Covid-19 positive cases.
*The UT police have arrested six persons for roaming around on the roads without masks and defying the 7pm curfew deadline without valid reason.