Govt urge open wedding halls in KP, owners

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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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