Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 26: The Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) of City Center Traders has today appealed the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to start the unlocking process in Kashmir.
In a statement, president Kashmir Retailers Association and general secretary JCC said the lockdown has badly affected the livelihood of lakhs of people who along with their families have been left to fend for themselves and are on the verge of starvation.
The statement said: “From traders to transporters, the business community is badly affected especially the city centre shopkeepers, where no shop has been able to open for the last over a month.”
The JCC said that let the Government call a joint meeting of stakeholders and health experts to decide about the protocol for the unlocking.
While seeking a relief package for the trader’s community, the JCC said the process should start with the amnesty on payment of service bills like electricity, sanitation, a special extension of the statutory dates of GST, exemption of interest and penalty for not filing the return by the statutory date and six-month moratorium on bank interest and EMI without interest.
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