Govt urge open wedding halls in KP, owners
PESHAWAR, (kikxNow) Representatives of Wedding Halls Association Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (WHA-KP) expressed their regret over still closure of wedding halls and demanded of the government to open halls.
Speaking at
a news press conference here at Peshawar Press Club (PPC) on Tuesday, president
of WHA Khalid Ayub said that livelihood of hundreds of thousands workers were
associated those wedding halls but it depends of their running business of
marriages in the concerned halls.
He said that
there were 120 registered and 170 unregistered wedding halls in the provincial metropolis
(Peshawar) while in the province there approximately 600 marriage halls, which
were closed for four months due to COVID-19.
Accompanied Arbab
Farooq, Rahat Akbar and others, the president said that as long as the lockdown
had been clamped by the government, the wedding halls were completely locked,
resulting loss of Rs2.5billions across only in head of expenditures.
“As per our capacity, we could give salaries
to our workers for last four months despite closure of wedding halls but now we
are not in the position to provide even a single penny to our workers as we
have completely broke”, he lamented.
He informed
that not only waiters, cooks, watchmen and slaughterers were earning from the
halls but also rice sellers while millions of rupees in head of electricity and
gas are dues against them. The lockdown was relaxed and allowed open markets of
different business but wedding halls were put in Grey list, which he added
injustice with them.
The wedding
halls are the only places as compared to other places, wherein cleanliness are
made on daily basis and the guests, who attend a function keep themselves clean
with ironed clothes, he maintained and he added that
He said that
the wedding halls always followed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) and further
instructions regarding precautionary by the government to them in order to
avoid coronavirus, would be implemented with letter and spirit. If any wedding
found violation of SOPs, would be closed, he ensured.
The wedding hall
owners, therefore, appealed the government to open their marriages till 18th
June 2020 so that their business could start again and warned that if case of
failure in this regard, they would march from provincial assembly Chief Minister
(CM) House as a protest.
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