Odisha: Traders protest market shutdown
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By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR: Hit badly by the primary part of lockdown and weekend shutdowns throughout the second wave of Covid-19, merchants led by secretary of Rahama Bazar Committee Sunakar Behera sat on dharna protesting district administration’s determination to maintain the market closed for one more two weeks.
Considered one of many largest and busiest markets within the space, Rahama Bazar is located between the district headquarters city and Paradip Port.
Keeping the security of locals in thoughts, the administration determined to close it down utterly throughout the first part of lockdown between May 5 and May 19, prompting farmers and merchants to conduct enterprise on the roadside of Cuttack-Paradip State freeway.
This led to overcrowding and non-adherence of Covid norms, ensuing within the administration shutting down the every day market on May 10 until additional orders.
