Businesses demand relief package
The Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) Adeel Siddiqui has urged the Prime Minister and Chief Minister Sindh to announce a business assistance package for the rehabilitation of business infrastructure which destroyed as a result of unprecedented heavy rains in Sindh, particularly in Hyderabad.
Addressing the fellow business community here at HCCI Secretariat on Thursday, he said the Sindh government should offer relief to businessmen in provincial taxes.
Appreciating the decision of the Sindh government of declaring many districts of the province including Hyderabad as calamity hit and realizing difficulties of the business community, the HCCI president said that urban flooding triggered by 400mm of rainfall in Hyderabad which destroyed homes, shops, godowns and warehouses.
He maintained that traders were not able to run their businesses due to two months long rain and they are going through mental agony. He called for deferring payments of utility bills for two months under present circumstances as the businessmen had borne losses to the tune of millions of rupees.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 26th, 2022.