Ludhiana: With a dip in Covid-19 cases and positivity rate in Ludhiana for the past two weeks, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday .
LUDHIANA: With the dip in Covid cases and positivity rate in Ludhiana for the past two weeks, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday e.
Ludhiana: From Monday, the new timings of closing shops by 1pm and food home delivery till 8pm will come into effect. Some traders are happy with the relaxation in restrictions. But others, particularly trader associations representing Old City markets, are demanding that shops be allowed to remain open till 5pm, else they will protest outside the houses of ruling party leaders.
Bhupinder Basant, senior vice-chairman of Punjab Traders’ Board, said, “We are grateful that our demand of extending working hours from 12pm to 1pm and allowing restaurants, food outlets, cafes to provide home delivery till 8pm has been accepted. The one-hour extension will help shopkeepers immensely, as footfall is likely to be registered post 11am till 1pm. Earlier, traders were suffering huge losses as customers don’t go shopping so early. Food businesses, too, have been saved from closing down permanently.”
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Despite appeals by farmers who took out protest marches against the weekend lockdown imposed by the state government, shopkeepers in Punjab kept their shops shut on Saturday.
Punjab s 32 farmer unions, protesting the Central farm laws, had announced to hold street protests against the lockdown in the state and had urged shopkeepers to defy the restrictions.
Amid a second wave of COVID-19, farmers took out protest marches at several places, including Moga, Patiala, Amritsar, Ajnala, Nabha, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Bathinda.
Carrying flags of their unions, farmers, including women, took out marches in the markets and appealed to shopkeepers and traders through loudspeakers to open their shops.