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Financial distress spikes up amid leaping up commodity prices
TIWN Feb 4, 2020
Financial distress spikes up amid leaping up commodity prices
PHOTO : A plastic, steel items seller in Agartala. TIWN Pic Feb 4, 2020 by Niladri Chowdhury

AGARTALA, Feb 4 (TIWN): When Chief Minister Biplab Deb is busy in hypothetical data manufacturing, in reality economic situations are drowning day by day. Visiting the local markets in Agartala nothing was experienced improved as the shopkeepers in the city are undergoing losses, facing customerless situations for a total financial year. Either Christmas or New Year, no festival is worth of enough expenditure due to drop in the business and effect in people’s daily earning. Today correspondents visited various shops and market sheds, empty customerless situations frustrated the sellers. The situations are different for the Govt employees little bit but others remain in miserable conditions. During the recent surveys on working class people, frustrations were spotted on the heights of the layers, although the Government has declined poverty report.

Ahead of Christmas when business should be on peak, there is no such glimpse yet in the capital city Agartala.

On Sunday, TIWN talked to local people, specially working class but almost everyone has triggered tensions about the financial conditions, whereas a large section have alleged about “Pending MGNREGA wages”. Talking to TIWN a rickshaw driver said, “It has become tough for us to manage our days meals. People don’t even want to ride rickshaws”. Another rickshaw driver said, “We thought, a massive revolution will take place once the Govt is changed but now our incomes have heavily downed further. Don’t know what to do”.

A cobbler said, “Govt promised us to help us in various ways. It promised to help us in various means and also to set a company for us. But even after submitting all papers, nothing was done”.

A local cosmetics seller told TIWN, “The business is going well till the half of the month but after that no business at all……..earlier we used to earn everyday”.

The fast-food sellers, garment sellers in hawkers corner said same.

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