For their rights: Traders take out a march against the sealing drive, at Bikanerwala Chowk in Karol Bagh on Friday. | Photo Credit: SHIVKUMARPUSHPAKARmore-inOver 8 lakh shops and 1.5 lakh factories remained shut on Friday, the first day of ‘Delhi Bandh’ called by the city traders against the ongoing sealing drive by the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee and civic bodies. Despite the proposal by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to bring about uniform floor area ratio (FAR) for shops-cum-residential plots and reducing of penalty charges for violation of other conditions, the traders said that the strike will continue on Saturday and Sunday. According to the CAIT, all wholesale and commercial markets in Delhi were shut in protest against the sealing drive. The CAIT claimed the two-day strike will lead to a loss of crores of rupees.

Source: The Hindu February 02, 2018 19:52 UTC