Hi Bharath,
Reg.Q.2.: Nobody is going to stop you from asking your employees on roll to report for duty immediately. you are within your rights to do so.
It's not the responsibility of the employer to provide for logistics support for an employee to commute between residence & workplace. May be, if your terms of appointment provides for such a perk/arrangement to take care of transportation, say pick up & drop by your vehicle then you are free to review this facility and revert to 'make your own arrangement' to commute provided you issue proper notice & amending the terms. Even consider replacing 'pickup-drop' by conveyance allw also instead.
Inter-state travels on own vehicles are taking place between some states whenever the concerned carries authentic ePasses and/or for those carrying Test certificate. Probably you may work on that to assist the concerned, apply & get them come to worse. All said and done, in the prevailing alarming situation it's also not advisable for those indulging/ preferring in commuting inter-state to continue & insist like the old pattern in these days also. Should be made to realise the gravity of current problems.
I suggest you may take appropriate action so that they shall report to duty instead of taking shelter under covid restrictions. After all it's need not be the terms of apptt. that one should stay outside the state/place of posting. Let them take a decision whether the job or comfort of staying at home with 'no work but pay'. It has no legal backing also.
Q.1.Initially during lock-down most of the employers did disburse salary though 'no work'. But due to practical difficulties, majority of them discontinued this measure as they have no means to pay or with no/or meager revenues. Moreover all the govts have relaxed lock-down either fully or partially enabling employers to resume operations, may be with reduced work force. As such you have your defence under 'no work-no pay'. Even the SC, while hearing batch of petitions of employers upheld employers' position in this regard, though final verdict still awaited.