CCI demands ‘5 days a week’ schedule for all traders, relief package for traders

Jammu: An urgent meeting was held at the chamber house under the presidentship of Sh. Arun Gupta, along with the office bearers in which Arun Gupta, appreciates the persuasive efforts being taken by the UT Administration to mitigate the surge of Covid 19 cases as the result of which, we are witnessing the downfall trend of covid infection cases in the UT of J&K from the last two week. At the same time, Arun Gupta also shows displeasure over the recent announced SOPs by the disaster management department. It is pertinent to mention that our traders have suffered a lot and faced huge losses during last year lockdown, and they are passing through the same phase this year due to the continuous lockdown since the previous month.
It is essential to mention here that when we all are witnessing continuous improvement for the last two weeks as far as covid infection cases and decline in the death toll figure, it is high time to unlock the markets, bazars, malls at least five days a week so that it will give some relief to our traders, who are facing the hardships from more than a month, we are not against the opening and closing of bazars timings announced by the administration. Still, at the same time, we must save our business community simply from dying from the economic crunch.
Arun Gupta said being an apex body of traders and industrialists, we always stood and cooperated with the Govt. whenever the need arises primarily in the time of crises, we are expecting the same response from the Govt. too to help our traders and industrialist.
Chamber President also appealed to the Hon’ble LG to announce the special relief package for the survival and revival of the business community who has suffered a lot during these pandemic times.
Those who were present in the meeting include Sh. Anil Gupta Sr. Vice-President, Sh. Rajeev Gupta Jr. Vice-President, Sh. Gaurav Gupta Secretary General, Sh. Rajesh Gupta Secretary and Sh. Rajesh Gupta Treasurer.