dehradun amidst confusion among traders over chief minister trivendra singh rawats order that allowed shops to remain open between 7 am and 7 pm from friday onwards the shopkeepers in dehradun were asked to close their shops at 4 pm on fridaythe decision over new market timings across the state was taken during a meeting chaired by cm rawat on thursday the timings were increased to encourage business activities that have been severely hit during covid19 lockdownpankaj mason president of doon valley mahanagar vyapar mandal said business owners were confused over revised timings however district magistrate ashish kumar srivastava had told us that the shops will have to be closed at 4 pm till further ordersthe officials have clarified that the shops were asked to close by 4 pm on friday as they had not received any official order by then later in the evening dm srivastava received the order and cleared that shops can now remain open till 7 pmmanvedra singh a salon owner told toi since the news about the revised timings was making rounds since thursday we were prepared to keep our shops open till 7 pm on friday but at around 350 pm cops asked us to shut shops thankfully we had not given any appointments to clientsin other parts of state as well including haridwar and nainital the shop owners closed their shops at 4 pm mridul kaushik president of chandra charya chowk vayapar mandal told toi even if the timings are increased there is not much business at present the traders also fear the risk of getting infectedtraders in nainital echoed the sentiment saying that there is not much pressure from the district administration and police to close shops early but there arent enough customers in the market