Agra: Announcement of UP Yogi Adityanath Minister who is liquor and meat will be banned in Mathura leaving the seller in the city in a panic state.
Thousands depend on this and their sectors allied for their livelihoods and, so far, there are no rehabilitation plans in place.
Also there are no roadmaps for the ban.
Yogi on Monday said that those involved in liquor and trade meat could take milk selling instead.
CM was asked to “revive the glory” from Mathura, considered sacred in Hinduism.
“I am the only productive member of my family eight.
I have two children.
How do I just change suddenly? ” Arun Thakur asked, which had six retail outlet liquor in the city.
“If the government wants to go ahead with this, it must come up with a rehabilitation plan for us …
there are almost 1,000 of our liquor sellers and families hanging in the city.” And it’s not just a seller.
“I worked at a liquor store.
The owner walked 22 stores like in the city and hired 50 people like me, “said Akhilesh Yadav.
“The cm says we have to start selling milk.
But can traders switch so easy? Will income even comparable? ” The city of Mathura has 644 vends liquor – 240 beer shops, 211 foreign liquor stores, 184 Indian liquor stores and nine shop models.
“The Excise Ministry is obtained by Rs 480 Crore from the sale of liquor (such as excise and license fees) in Mathura during the last financial year,” said the Prabhat Chandra Excise Officer District.
For meat sellers in the city, many of them do not install signages to remain striking, this threatens to intensify the crisis that starts with a pandemic.
“I made Rs 600-700 a day.
I have six girls and a wife to support.
Where will I go? I don’t know how to do anything other than this.
I learned from my brothers in Delhi, “said Mohammad Shahid, a meat seller at Mathura.
Another seller, Vishal Sonkar, who runs a meat shop that has been in his family for generations, said, “I employ six workers.
I have 15 members in my own family.
We can’t do anything else.
” The Allied sector will also hit.
“Non-vegetables sell more than vegetables here” said Aarif Khan, owner of the Taj Hotel in Mathura.
“There are nearly 10,000 people in business hotels and restaurants in the city.” The city has at least 300 hotels and restaurants, former Secretary of the Association of Hotels and restaurants in Mathura (the body has been dissolved) Ankit Bansal said.
“At least 50 of these restaurants serve non-vegetables.
Many will be abandoned unemployed.
This sector will be very affected, “Bansal, now a National Work member from the National Restaurant Association of India, said.
Appointed by officers at Mathura’s food and drug administration, Gauri Shankar, said Mathura did not have a slaughterhouse.
It has 45 registered meat shops.
One of them has a turnover of more than Rs 12 lakh one year and the rest are small people.
Over the past four years, the state government has imposed the same ban on seven cities from religious meanings in the district – Govardhan, Baldev, Nandgaon, Radhakund, Gokul, Vrindavan and Barsana – after declaring their pilgrimage site.
“In Mathura, the ban will be in place in the city.
Which, it has not been decided, “said the Head of the Additional Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal.
“The road map for the ban is being prepared now.”