Faisalabad: Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) President Rana Muhammad Sikandar Azam Khan recently called for the provision of a special relief package for shopkeepers having rented premises to help them recover from the losses incurred during the country’s ongoing anti-COVID lockdown phase — a news source reported.
The FCCI president made this request during a meeting with a delegation of traders on Wednesday. He further said that the FCCI was making additional efforts to help traders, and that the government had also helped by deferring the payment of rents for the next two months.
However, president Khan also felt that the reduced business hours, along with an extended lockdown had caused added problems for the traders community.
He said that the landlords were demanding payments, but the traders were not in a position to support themselves. He added that the traders had paid billion of rupees in taxes to the government, but now they needed help and support to keep their businesses operational.
