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RANCHI: Traders under the newly formed district unit of Simdega Chamber of Commerce on Saturdat protested against the transfer of deputy commissioner Vijoy Kumar Singh . Vikas Agrawal, a loca trader, said the government's decision to transfer Singh in less than two years of his tenure did not go down well with the masses. "There were some protests by the traders and they closed their establishments, but in general there was no bandh," he said. Shops and market remained closed as most of the traders joined the protest voluntarily Singh was transferred and posted as registrar of cooperative societies with additional charge of Jharkhand State Cooperative Bank Limited administrator through a government notification late on Friday. "We had an opportunity to convey our grievances to him at the Janta Durbar and most of them were adressed properly," he said.Simdega SP Rajiv Ranjan Singh said the bandh was limited to shops and market remaining closed during the day..