Covid: Weddings cancelled, band operators lose chance to recoup
The government’s restrictions on participants at a wedding, has affected the band operators at these functions, already reeling under losses from last year’s lockdown. Around 90 per cent of the 20 thousand marriages scheduled during the wedding season of April, May, June and July have been cancelled while the remaining 10 per cent are not opting for a band. Manjit Kumar Soni, operator of one of the oldest band party based at Purana Bazar locality of Dhanbad said, “We had 200 bookings for the entire marriage season beginning from April 19 to July 15 but with new restriction limiting ...
Source: telegraphindia.com