Basti: The business class is going through a very difficult phase right now amid constant economic pressure, increasing tax burden, administrative strictness and rising inflation.
The traders, who have not fully recovered from the pandemic, are now being burdened with additional burden in the form of new rules, laws, raids and fines.The surprising thing is that governments are maintaining silence on this oppression.
Economic instability and government neglect
Small and medium traders say that they have to face some government agency or the other every month. Sometimes it is the GST department’s inspection, and sometimes unnecessary troubles in the name of licenses and permits.
Despite this, the governments have turned a blind eye to their problems. 6 resolutions related to the interests of traders were passed in the Vyapari Maha Kumbh organized by the Basti Udyog Vyapar Pratinidhi Mandal in the auditorium of a hotel located on the railway station road.
Chief guest Sunil Singhi, National President of Vyapari Kalyan Board said that the Central and State governments are continuously working towards making business easier and solving problems.Despite this, prompt action is taken in cases of harassment of traders, extortion etc. in any part of the country.
Farmers and traders complement each other. A grocery trader from Basti says, “We deal with officials more than customers on a daily basis.”Checking every document, questioning every bill, it seems as if we are criminals, not businessmen.
State Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Udyog Vyapar Mandal Mahendra Jain Mayur said that the entrepreneurs and businessmen of the country and Uttar Pradesh are going through a difficult phase.
Exploitation in the name of GST, arbitrariness at the departmental level, harassment is at its peak. In such a situation, we all have to unite for our rights so that the central and state governments listen to the entrepreneurs and businessmen.
Small traders are hit the hardest
Devesh Rastogi, Sunil Pandey, Anand Rajpal, Om Prakash Arya, Surya Kumar Shukla, Prabhat Soni, Dharmendra Chaurasia, S.N. Gupta, Atma Prasad Pathak and others addressed the issues.
The 6 proposals passed include establishment of modern food laboratories at the district level for testing, operation of one Tola Plaza instead of two in Basti district, issuance of caste certificates for Madheshiya and Kasaudhan community.
The demands include making Ayushman cards for GST registered traders, implementing a single window for business operations, reserving seats for the representation of traders in Rajya Sabha and Legislative Councils, etc.
District President Sunil Kumar Gupta raised ground issues while welcoming the guests and representatives who had come to the Vyapari Maha Kumbh. While conducting the function, Surya Kumar Shukla elaborately highlighted the problems of national, regional and district level traders.
State chairman of Uttar Pradesh Udyog Vyapar Mandal, Mahendra Jain Mayur, administered the oath to the office bearers of Basti Udyog Vyapar Pratinidhi Mandal.
The main participants in the programme are Arun Singh, Devendra Shrivastava, Padyumna Shukla, Satyanarayan Patwa, Pramod Gupta, Hariram Nishad, Kundan Verma, Premchandra Gupta, Dinesh Jaiswal, Ashutosh Pandey, Rajesh Soni, Vishnu Soni, Rajesh Soni, Ajay Agrahari, Ajay Chaudhary,Om Prakash Chaudhary, Chaturbhuj Tiwari, Santosh Chaudhary, Shailendra Chaudhary, Ravi Bhushan Tripathi, Vinay Mishra, Sandeep Jaiswal, Mahendra Chaurasia, Ravichandra Shukla, Haji Mohammad Alam, Anoop Arora, Ranjit Srivastava, Anil, Harimohan Verma, Satish Sonkar,Kanhaiya Agrahari, Shivlal Jaiswal, Dabbu Srivastava, Pramod Gupta, Vivek Girotra, Manoj Sarraf, Rajan Gupta, Lalji Singh, Manoj, Rishabh, Ashok Kumar Nigam, Vinod Sachdeva, Rajiv Gabir, Himanshu, Pawan Kasodhan, Ramkumar, Vrajmangal Barnwal, Amar Singh Yadav, Aadya Prasad,Sunil, Vikas, Divyanshu, Bhola Nath, Mobin Ali, Javed, Bajrang Lal, Manish, Kallu Baba, Manmohan, Sneh Pandey, Shobhit, Ravi Paswan, Ramesh Gupta along with thousands of traders from the district were present.
