ludhiana after remaining on a strike for 43 days jewellers and goldsmiths have decided to open their shops from wednesday afternoon it is pertinent to mention here that the businessmen were protesting against the union governments decision to impose 1 excise duty on manufacturing of nonsilver jewellery inspite of repeated reminders by the jewellers to union finance minister arun jaitley the latter refused to rollback the decision jaitley had refused to budge from his stand on sunday and cautioned that government will have to increase taxes on essential commodities if it leaves jewellery out of the purview of central excise dutysarjeevan dhir chief patron of swarnkar sangh said we have decided to open our businesses from wednesday our fraternity has already suffered losses worth thousands of crores but the government is least bothered we will decide about the next plan of action tomorrow after consulting our members tnn