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Chandni Chowk market wears a deserted look during weekend lockdown imposed in Delhi on Sunday
The famous Chandni Chowk market in the old Delhi and the wholesale markets in the national capital will remain shut till April 25. The decision was taken by traders and associations in view of unprecedented surge in Covid-19 cases.Â
Several market associations have supported the decision to keep shops closed. Delhi Kirana Committee of Khari Baoli Market and Chemical Merchant Association of Tilak Bazaar have announced that shops will remain closed till April 21.
Chandni Chowk Sarv Vyapar Mandal s Sanjay Bhargava said that an emergency meeting was called on Sunday to discuss the prevailing situation. It was decided that shops will remain closed till April 25 in light of very serious condition of the virus spreading at very large volumes .
April 19, 2021
Small businesses in India have taken the lead to fight the deadly second wave of Covid-19, even as the country’s political leadership continued to brazenly flout all protocols.
On April 15, a traders’ association in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow announced a voluntarily shut down in some of the city’s main markets to break the Covid-19 chain. While some markets remained shut until April 18, in other areas the lockdown has been extended until April 21.
On April 18, traders in Delhi’s Chandani Chowk market also decided to keep their shops shut until April 25.
The trend of self-imposed lockdown is catching up in the hinterland, too. For example, in some of Gujarat’s villages, traders have announced partial lockdowns following the state government’s failure to handle the covid crisis.
The biggest advantage of a short lockdown would be that workers and labourers in shops and factories would not have to return to their villages like last year, Brijesh Goyal, chairman of the Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI), said.
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