Summary:
A large number of shopkeepers have been categorised for offering non-essential items and the police are not allowing them to open shops. “How the government can consider something non-essential and even a shop 'non-essential'. Meanwhile market associations and traders are demanding from the government to adopt a rotation system instead of categorising shops for offering essential and non-essential items. We have conducted a meeting with shopkeepers in the market and they all agreed that the alphabetic code system should be implemented. Other shops offering non-essential items are not allowed to open but shopkeepers largely violate it..