bhopal by the evening on the second day of the unlock in bhopal district administration allowed chicken and meat shops to open stating that nonveg food is part of essential goods and therefore the shops can operate nonveg food reportedly being a good source of protein was another factor which strengthened their argument as doctors and dieticians are advising people to have good intake of proteinoptical shops have also been allowed to open by the administration on the pretext that it can be considered an extension of the medicalhealth facilityhowever demand of traders in other segments particularly clothes and jewelry mobiles electronics and more to allow them to operate their shopsshowrooms remains unheeded so far a delegation of clothes garments and jewelry shop owners met minister for medical education vishwas sarang to request him that their shops should also be allowed to openthe minister told the delegation that the situation was being reviewed daily and shops of some more segments could be allowed to operate after june 7selective permission to allow opening of shops by the district administration has allowed a strange situation in the city with some market areas like five no market or six no market where most of the shops are those of grocery medicines or stationary are fully operational while bigger markets like new market or m p nagar which have a variety of shops including grocery medical shops electrical hardware and stationary are largely shut among 1300odd shops in the new market only 100odd are open clothes and jewelry merchants are showing more eagerness to open the shops because the marriage season is still on in may marriages were banned they obviously wish that if the shops are opened they may have some days of brisk business before the monsoon sets ingeneral secretary of new market vyapari mahasangh ajay devnani said that shops in all the segments should be allowed to open as all the shops had been close for 50 days under lockdown and its imperative that they are given a go ahead to operate the shops in keeping with with covid19 guidelines he further said that in place of sealing the shops the district administration should impose spotfine on both the shopkeepers and the customers if they violate the guidelineshe however said that the fine should not be exorbitant as traders cant afford to pay a fine of rs 5000 as imposed by the administration on occasions before the lockdown was enforcedin the old city wholesale grocery shops in azad nagar are open but textile and jewelry shops in the chowk market nearby are closed however this appears to be a deliberate design of the district administration to contain crowds in bigger marketsdistrict collector avinash lavania on wednesday visited the azad market market with other officials of district administration and the police to take stock of the situation