FWICE sets up monitoring team to ensure new COVID-19 guidelines compliance : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

April 9, 2021

The Federation of Western Indian Cine Employees (FWICE) has issued a recent set of guidelines to be adopted by members of the movie business in view of the partial lockdown imposed in Maharashtra until April 30.

The guidelines have been issued in view of the rising variety of COVID-19 instances within the nation, significantly in Maharashtra. In a press launch, the president of FWICE, B N Tiwari, General Secretary Ashok Dubey, Treasurer Gangeshwar Srivastav, and Chief Advisors Sharad Shelar with Ashoke Pandit stated, “The office-bearers of FWICE had a Zoom meeting with the honourable chief minister, Shri Uddhav Thackeray. The FWICE has assured the CM that the industry will be responsible where the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) of the COVID guidelines are concerned. FWICE in coordination with experts has laid down guidelines which all people involved in pre-production, shooting and post-production work will have to adhere to.”

The launch additional stated, “These guidelines as of now will be applicable till 30 April 2021.” The guidelines are as well as to the sooner SOPs unveiled by the FWICE, as directed by the state authorities.

According to the new guidelines, capturing of crowd sequences and songs with dancers in massive numbers won’t be allowed. Wearing of masks and steady sanitization are obligatory on the sets, in manufacturing workplaces, and in submit-manufacturing studios. An FWICE monitoring team has been constituted to go to sets and submit-manufacturing studios usually to verify that every one guidelines are being adopted. Any particular person or manufacturing unit flouting the foundations or creating any type of hindrance within the adherence of the guidelines will face disciplinary motion.

In addition, the word acknowledged, “A complete lockdown shall be followed from Friday 8pm to Monday 7am and thus, any kind of shooting, setting, pre-production activities should be avoided during this period. It is permissible to shoot from Monday to Friday. All members are hereby advised to schedule their shootings as per the above permissible days.”

The guidelines come after a number of prime artistes examined constructive for COVID-19 previously week, together with Akshay Kumar, Alia Bhatt, Aamir Khan, Bhumi Pednekar and Katrina Kaif.

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