News Edition 24 Desk: New Delhi: A day later Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani declared a waiver on property tax and fixed charge in the electricity bill for a year, to give support to the hotels, resorts, restaurants, and water parks in the state, traders are asking related reservations in Delhi and Noida as they are staggering under COVID-19 restraints after the onset of the harsh second surge of the pandemic. Citing the Gujarat government’s movement, the Confederation of Traders Association of India’s Delhi and Noida chapters have directed related relief in a request to begin afresh from their governments. The Delhi government permitted the opening up of shops and other commercial institutions beginning June 7.
“In Delhi, traders are meeting a big financial crisis, and on the other hand to make the situation worse, the electricity providers have sent highly increased bills to commercial and industrial establishments for the period of lockdown when these businesses were closed and making the life of traders more miserable. Under the conditions, we urged you to look into the matter urgently and grant a financial package for the traders of Delhi and direct the Electricity providers to take back the electricity bills issued to commercial and industrial establishments for the lockdown period,” Praveen Khandelwal, CAIT secretary general and Vipin Ahuja, Delhi state president wrote to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.