mumbai a traders federation has requested the state government to permit all shops to ply their business six days a week irrespective of which side of the road they are locatedat present shops on either side of the road are allowed to open on alternate days that is three days a week owing to covid19 lockdown restrictions their owners are finding it difficult to pay shop rent electricity bills staff salaries and overhead costs with limited businessviren shah president of frtwa federation of retail traders welfare association said shops are effectively working just 12 days a month which is impractical to sustain operational costs we have written to cm uddhav thackeray aditya thackeray sharad pawar aslam shaikh and bmc commissioner is chahal to allow us to reopen shops properly under unlockdown 2 mumbai is the financial capital and maharashtra contributes 60 by way of gst by not allowing shops to ply on all six days the advantage is going to ecommerce businessesconsumers are also perplexed as to shops on which side of a road will be open on which day i only know about my locality but not about other markets a little distance away one cannot possibly travel the distance only to return empty handed said four bungalows resident sarita shyam