Maharashtra mobile phone retailers urge CM for limited opening of stores

New Delhi: Maharashtra mobile phone retailers body has written to CM Uddhav Thackeray urging him to either allow opening of stores for limited hours in the week or alternate working days in the 25-day lockdown period to prevent huge losses to 15,000 retailers across the State.

“We are really surprised to see that all the shops and markets are forced to closed for such a big span of 25 days which will not only cause a big setback but we are quite sure that majority of us will have to shut down the business as we won’t be able to survive with a baggage of expenses like staff salaries, shop rents, home rents, electricity bills, bank interests, EMI’s etc,” Ajit Jagtap, president to the state body said in a letter dated April 5.