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GB Nagar district magistrate Suhas LY assured the administration will discuss the issue with the representatives of market associations to find a solution.
East Delhi markets including Laxmi Nagar’s main market have been closed till July 5 for flouting COVID-19 norms.
New Delhi: As East Delhi markets have been shut due to violation of COVID-19 norms, Noida markets also fear the same fate due to high footfall and little to no adherence to the coronavirus protocols. Atta market association in Noida has asked the authorities for stricter enforcement of the norms.
As per a Times of India report, the market association has asked the authorities to control the number of unauthorised vendors in and around Atta market. “It has hardly been a week since the market opened and we are already seeing a large crowd. People are thronging street vendors and several food stalls. We have asked the authorities to regulate the crowd and ensure proper masking otherwise Atta market
Visual from Atta Market
NOIDA: With Laxmi Nagar and other markets in Delhi being shut down due to increasing crowds, Atta market association in Noida has asked the administration to ensure strict enforcement or it would soon emerge as a Covid hotspot.
Shop owners have asked the authority to control the number of unauthorised vendors in and around Atta market. Some other areas such as the weekly vegetable markets in Sadarpur, Barola, Bhangel and Shhadra are also seeing an increased footfall.
CB Jha, president of Atta market association, said, “It has hardly been a week since the market opened and we are already seeing a large crowd. People are thronging street vendors and several food stalls. We have asked the authorities to regulate the crowd and ensure proper masking otherwise Atta market will be the next hotspot for the city.”
Delhi markets on Day 1 of Unlock 2.0
With markets reopening in Delhi on an odd-even basis earlier this week, shopkeepers remain hopeful that their customers will gradually return. While some say that the reopening of markets on an odd-even basis is a hassle for customers, they hope that markets can fully reopen soon, adding that they’ll continue to follow social distancing and COVID protocols.
Delhi Markets wear a deserted look on Day 1 of unlock 2.0
Shopkeepers say the odd-even rule for shops can become a hassle for customers. “I think it confuses customers. If a customer is stepping out amid the pandemic, they want to finish all their work in one go. But with few shops open on a given day, customers have to end up making another visit, which is tiresome for many,” says Mukesh Goyal, a shopkeeper from Khan Market. He adds, “We aren’t letting more than three people enter the shop at once. People with masks are allowed to enter and use of sanitisers is a must.”
In some cases, neighbours sought help from the district administration and Noida police on Twitter for conducting the last rites
Noida: On Monday evening, 60-year-old Naveen Sinha, owner of a photostat shop in Atta Market, died of Covid-19. For more than 14 hours, his body lay in his Palm Valley society flat in Greater Noida (West). None of his family members – his wife and their two children were in a position to cremate it as all of them had tested positive too.
Akash Rai, a family friend, said Naveen’s son Bittu (26) was the first to get Covid in the family. “Bittu is in a bad shape and needs immediate hospitalisation. His father expired around 6pm on Monday, but given Bittu’s deteriorating condition and the fact that Naveen’s wife and his daughter Nupur had tested positive as well, there was nobody to take the body for cremation,” he told TOI. Death of a Covid patient has been a double blow for families where all members have tested positive. With no one to perfor
Noida: Strict checking for papers by police led to long queues of vehicles at the Noida-Delhi borders in Chilla and Kalindi Kunj on Friday evening. Now that the UP government has revised curfew timings to 8pm-7am, police have been ensuring that everybody, except those involved in essential services, are back home before the restrictions on movement are imposed.
The traffic to Delhi from Noida had, however, thinned by early evening because most people were aware of Delhi government’s decision to impose weekend lockdown, starting Friday night. As barricades were placed a few metres ahead of the Noida entry gate, traffic moved at snail’s pace in a single lane. However, there was no random Covid testing at the borders as announced by the district magistrate recently.