Allow Pvt Businesses To Operate With 50% Capacity In Mumbai: BJP
Mumbai: The group leader of BJP in BMC, Prabhakar Shinde, wrote to the Mayor and Municipal Commissioner on Thursday, demanding that private businesses and traders be allowed to operate at 50% capacity in Mumbai.
Prabhakar Shinde, group leader of BJP in BMC and senior corporate says, “Traders and small-time businessmen have suffered an immense loss in the past one year. Now, many of them are taking to the streets to protest, which is why we have written to the civic administration to consider their dilemma and allow private entities to function at 50 per cent capacity.”
“If the local ward office remains vigilant and rolls out strict policies against the violation of COVID-19 protocols, then private entities will be able to run their business safely. Alongside this, BJP has accused the civic administration of imposing the mini lockdown in an unplanned manner,” he added.
Earlier, BMC has announced that restaurants will be totally shut, only take away and home delivery services will be allowed between 7 am to 8 pm on weekdays. On weekends, only food deliveries would be allowed.
Besides this, the civic body has also added more relaxations, such as allowing the movement of cooks and housekeeping workers till 10 pm throughout the week and allowing opticians to operate in the given time.
As a result, BJP didn’t hold back any punches and said that the civic body does not have any concrete plan yet on how to contain the spread of COVID-19.
“The civic administration doesn’t have any clear policy as to how it tends to impose the lockdown. This has confused all the small-time businessmen and traders,” Shinde said.
“Both the state government and civic administration had to register their demand well in advance to refill the stock. Till last month, we were being told that we have adequate stock everywhere. This is nothing but sheer mismanagement,” Shinde further added.
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