Varanasi: The Banarasi Vastra Udyog Association has decided to keep their shops closed till May 2.
The decision was taken in a meeting of its general body on Saturday in which the office bearers and members termed the second wave of Covid-19 as alarming. They observed that the arrangements for hospital beds, oxygen, medicines are not sufficient enough to meet the requirements of the increasing number of Covid patients, and hence, amid such an acute crisis, it would be in everyone’s intrerest to keep their trade completely shut till May 2.
The association’s general secretary Rajan Bahal said that the members had been expressing their worries about the ongoing situation of Covid-19, and demanded for keeping the markets closed. The general body meet was convened under the leadership of Jagdish Das Shah.