Now, it’s business as usual for traders

Rajinder Nagarkoti

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 17

A day after the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation reopened the two parking lots—Empire store and Sahib Singh parking lot—in Sector 17, it was business as usual for traders. 

After wearing a deserted look for a week, the traders of the Sector 17 Plaza said there was good footfall today. 

Meanwhile, the customers today parked their vehicles in the two free parking lots. There were only 270 vehicles, which were parked in the multi-level parking today against the daily 700 to 800 vehicles, including four-wheelers and two-wheelers. 

Neeraj Bajaj, president, Business Promotion Council, Sector 17, said today the business of Sector 17 traders and the footfall had also increased. In the coming days the situation would improve, Bajaj said. 

Traders also congratulated former Union Minister and senior BJP leader Harmohan Dhawan, Congress president Pardeep Chhabra, other Congress leaders, who stood for the traders. 

Traders of Sector 17 also held a meeting today in which it was decided that they would urge all the traders to park their vehicles in the multi-level parking. 

Besides, it was also decided that the Sector 17 association would also print their stickers which would be pasted on the vehicles of the Sector 17 traders to differentiate their vehicles from the customer’s vehicle.