Summary:
Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah seeking immediate directions to LG Anil Baijal to allow reopening of hotels and weekly markets in the national capital.
Sisodia, in his letter to Shah, wrote that 8 per cent of Delhi’s business and employment are hit due to the coronavirus disease outbreak.
“Due to the closure of weekly markets, five lakh families are sitting at home.
Now when they are hopeful that with control over coronavirus in Delhi they will get an opportunity to restart their business, binding them under the decision of closure is unfair to Delhi’s economic situation and hopes of lakhs of people,” Sisodia wrote.
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New Delhi: Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday wrote to Union home minister Amit Shah seeking immediate directions to LG Anil Baijal to allow reopening of hotels and weekly markets in the national capital.
Sisodia, in his letter to Shah, wrote that 8 per cent of Delhi’s business and employment are hit due to the coronavirus disease outbreak.
“Due to the closure of weekly markets, five lakh families are sitting at home.
Now when they are hopeful that with control over coronavirus in Delhi they will get an opportunity to restart their business, binding them under the decision of closure is unfair to Delhi’s economic situation and hopes of lakhs of people,” Sisodia wrote.
“I request you to change your decision and direct LG to immediately accept the proposal by the chief minister.
Delhi government will again send a file on this matter to him on Tuesday ; I request you to ask LG not to stop it,” Sisodia wrote in his letter to the home minister.
“If traders start their business, jobs will be generated, and that the condition of economy will improve,” the deputy chief minister wrote in his letter.