Bhubaneswar: Markets and shops throughout the city in Odisha reopened on Thursday after 56 hours of locking, but the buyers mostly stayed on the first day.
The thermal scanner and cleaners welcome customers at the entrance most stores while many are tying rope to limit the entry of customers.
Garment, footwear, jewelry, and barber shop is one of the non-essential stores that continue operations while shopping centers, spas and beauty salons, cinemas, gymnasium and bar are still closed.
In 10 coastal districts show Kaseload Height – Khurda, Cuttack, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Nayagarh, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Ballasore and Mayurbhanj – Shops are allowed to open from 6am to 2pm, while on the remaining 20 store shops open until hours 6pm.
“The second key is more difficult than the first time to continue for two months.
We urge the government to enable us to operate until 6 pm so we can do business,” said Ranjit Mohanty, assistant secretary of the building market in the unit-II area, a popular shopping center on City with more than 200 shops.
The market did not witness in a hurry on Thursday while the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities carried out a raid to examine the violations of Covid guidelines.
“We did not find many crowds on the market because people generally came to shop at night.
Most of the shops were also found to follow the Covid protocol,” said Anshuman Rath, Deputy Commissioner of Zonal BMC (Southeast).
Trinath Dakua, a barber in the unit-IV area sighed as relieved when he reopened his shop after a two-month gap.
“I can’t explain the difficulties and difficulties I have to face for two months to run a family of five members.
If locking continues for a few more days, we will die because of starvation, if not covid.
I took all the precautions and asked my customers to follow They, “Dakua said, adding that he had no problems with time limit.