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NEW DELHI: The lane in Sarojini Nagar market, once bustling with shopaholics where to find a place to put a walk is a struggle, looked deserted on Tuesday — the first day of the reopening of the market following the Odd-even rule established by the government of the city.
The shop owners, however, were not surprised.”What is the point of opening the shops when the customers can’t come? Although it is too early to predict, but I doubt that if you are not going to be any large jump in our sales. The government (state) could have waited a few more days and then it opened. The loss of toh ho gaya hai, thoda aur seh lete (since we have incurred losses, could have to endure a few more days,” said Joginder, who wears a sari shop in Sarojini Nagar.
As part of the relaxation that is offered during the lockout that extends until May 31, some of the markets in new Delhi to re-open with limitations. The decision of opening was taken up by the market associations and that opened asked the associations to follow the Odd-even rule. However, the majority of the owners of the shop had a thought that there was no hurry to open the markets, but how long can the shops are close by.
Apart from Sarojini, the markets in South Extension, Khan Market, Greater Kailash-II, and Connaught Place, open until Tuesday. The majority of these markets were empty with limited stores opened after you follow the odd-even rule.
“The sanitation is going on now, and maybe we can begin to operate the store full fledgy by day after tomorrow. There are of course the risk factor as we are not going to know that it can be a possible carrier of the virus but for how long the lock can continue…it has to be a beginning, it can be so slow and steady, but things have to be brought back in its place. Also the CM said that we have to learn to live with the virus,” said Peter Sharma, a clothing store owner in the South of Extension.
Connaught Place also seemed bored with almost every store was opened, and accounting of customers.
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