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| Small shopkeepers, street vendors should also get relief package: Satish Sharma | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 12: Due to the lock-down across the country, all types of business establishments remained closed for about 3 months, after which the government opened them after giving relaxation but still there is no business in sight for these establishments.
If someone has been affected the most due to this lock down, then it is the poor laborers, middle class, lower middle class, small shopkeepers, hawkers and transporters especially those transporters who have only one matador or an auto rickshaw to take care of their family.
Therefore, the government should, without losing time, announce a relief package for these people so that this section can also take care of itself and its family properly.
This demand was made by senior Congress leader and former Jammu Municipal Corporation chairman Satish Sharma while talking to reporters on Friday.
Satish said that even though the government has announced an economic package of 20 lakh crores, the poor and middle class have gotten nothing from that package.
He said that these people who have been lockdown for the last three months have nothing left and have no income left to provide for themselves and their family.
Even today, there are many such families in Jammu and Kashmir, whose house does not have ration left to feed themselves in the evening on daily basis because the work on which they depended was closed for the last three months. And now people who have been allowed by the government to start working again but they do not have any customers.
With this, he said that what the transporter has asked is justified, the government should also make a relief package to them in some way so that neither the fare is increased nor the transporters also remained at the receiving end.
Satish demanded that the electricity and water bill of the general public should be waived off for 6 months because all the people of Jammu and Kashmir were sitting home unemployed in lock-down, then how can they pay the bills.
He has demanded from the Lieutenant Governor administration that some such policy should be made soon so that the poor and middle class families can get relief. Youth Congress leader Suman Preet Singh and social activist Sat Pal Verma were also present in the press conference.
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