New Delhi: Niranjan Singh, a worker at a steel shop and stone on the Singhu border, close to despair.
“I don’t know how I will feed my family if this continues,” said Singh.
The protest of farmers on the border for almost a year has now sang it.
He used to bring home Rs 500-1,000 every day before the protesters gathered at the border in November last year.
At present, he produces Rs 100 per day if he is lucky, Rs 200 is the most, because the work has stopped due to the agricultural situation ‘.
The daily wage recipients and shop owners face a burden of inactivity caused by farmers squatting in the area and road movements that are hampered.
Welder Nadeem, for example, said “Kam to hi hi nahi (absolutely no work).
I got Rs 18,000 a month before.
Now I don’t get customers even for stretching.” On Friday, the Supreme Court expressed concern in a sustainable road blockade in and around Delhi by agitat farmers to three central legislates, and shop owners and workers agreed on Saturday that the blockade had to end if the residents of the border area would survive.
Manish Khatri has three outlets for branded clothes on the Singhu border.
He claimed the loss of Rs 1 Crore because of the blockade.
“I have to turn off one of my showrooms,” he said.
His brother, Rahul, added they had to do it off 5-7 employees because they could not pay their salaries.
“We have also cut paying 30-40% because our sales have been beaten,” Rahul said.
Deepak, an employee, agreed and said there were days when no customers came.
“Agitation should not continue,” he said.
On Saturday afternoon, several vehicles slowly negotiated the muddy and perforated highway.
Almost no traffic.
Raju, local, has two empty buckets in his hand.
“Previously, I used to get a bottle of water in front of my door, but the cans didn’t come now and I had to go to the village for water,” he said.
“Look at the road conditions.” Arvind Chaudhary has the ventilation parts of factory manufacture.
“I can’t even calculate losses after the blockade,” he said.
“Small trucks that charge Rs 500 for today’s delivery service request Rs 3,000 for the same job,” he said.
A nearby mall is quiet.
Protesters use mall parking lots to wash clothes and equipment.
Satendar Singh, who claimed to be a gas station owner, said he suffered more loss than Rs 1.5 Crore in recent years.
Month.
“The business fell Rs 35,000 from normal every day,” he said.
According to him, because the traffic rate arises from protests, people cannot go to the gas station and take a jar.
“They asked for our gasoline drum and plastic container.
If we refuse, the argument comes out, sometimes sometimes in the curve,” he said.
Meanwhile, many commuters also talked about the difficult times they faced because of the rejection of farmers to empty the highway.
“Every day, just because of this blockade, I have to travel one hour to reach the store,” said one of them.
“The distance of my shop is just 20 minutes from my house.”
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