JAMMU: An emergent meeting of Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Jammu, was held at Chamber House under the chairmanship of its President Arun Gupta along with the office bearers Anil Gupta, Sr. Vice President, Rajeev Gupta, Jr. Vice President, Gaurav Gupta, Secretary General, Rajesh Gupta, Secretary and Rajesh Gupta, Treasurer in which various issues related to traders were discussed.
The CCI President applauded the LG Govt. for considering various demands of the Chamber including grant of rights to Mahajans, Khatris, Sikhs and Jain to purchase and sale of agriculture land in the UT which earlier was denied to the aforesaid communities by a particular clause in the J&K Land Act. and requested the govt. to include Ziver, Nai, Kamyar ( Kashap Rajput and Other OBC communities ) in the same preview. He also expressed gratitude for allowing cinemas and banquets to function with certain necessary restrictions. He also appreciated the government for taking adequate measure in addressing the long pending demand of continuous ban on mining in Jammu region. He welcomed the move of government for constituting committees to in this regard.
Arun Gupta said that there are few more demands of the CCI like Issue pertaining to Single wine shop owners, to stop the opening of huge number of Reliance store in the region should also be considered to be resolved soon .
Jammu Chamber also appealed to the government to withdraw the order issued by the department asking residents of Gandhi Nagar to vacate front 10 feet area from their premises which is not quite possible.
Jammu Chamber President asked the government to take a lenient view in the matter and find out via media to save these traders from getting shattered.
