Morbi clock factories stop work for 7 days

Rajkot: Morbi’s clock industry has decided to come to a halt voluntarily for one week starting from Sunday.
The clock cluster that accounts for 75 percent share in Indian clock industry decided to go into self-lockdown looking at the spike in Covid positive cases in Morbi district.
Morbi registered 15 positive cases on Friday, highest one-day spike in cases, while the total rose above 90 so far in the district.
President of Morbi Clock and Parts Manufacturing Association, Shashank Dangi said, “Nearly 16,000 women work in our cluster, of whom nearly 14,000 commute from rural areas everyday. We decided to halt work for one week to control spread of disease in rural areas.” Morbi has nearly 80 units manufacturing wall clocks, which have now reduced its number of working days to only two from earlier five-day week.