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Delhi traders seek rehabilitation package

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Confederation of All-India Traders (CAIT) has sent a memorandum to President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam seeking a rehabilitation package for the Capital's traders.

Stating that the ongoing sealing drive targeting commercial premises in the city was another attempt to overlook the humanitarian aspect of a serious issue, CAIT has demanded that the Government provide relief to the traders falling under A and B category colonies "since such arbitrary categorisation smacked of differentiation among traders of the same city". Terming the sealing drive as "unjustified" and "beyond reasonable limits", CAIT in a release said the operations being carried out in Delhi against the trading community violated their "fundamental and human rights", for uprooting them without any relocation of rehabilitation was a "cruel and inhuman act".

CAIT has also demanded that all categories of traders protected under the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006, must be kept outside the purview of sealing, including small traders operating their business from DDA flats.

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