TPCC Urges Telangana CS To Extend Trade License Renewal Deadline

Hyderabad, March 26 (Maxim News): TPCC Convenor G. Niranjan said Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to extend deadline for renewal of trade licenses and stamping of petrol pump outlets by concerned traders in GHMC limits by keeping in view of the ongoing lockdown. He wrote a letter to the chief secretary on the issue. In his letter, he said that as per the rules and regulations, the trade licenses should be renewed every year by the end of March every year and added that penalties would be levied from April 1 on the traders if they failed to do so.

He also said that the petrol bunks have to get their delivery units stamped prior to their due date by weights and measures department of the state failing which they would have to shut down their delivering units from operation. He said that in view of the Nation wide lock down for 21 days due to the deadly corona virus, he requested the chief secretary to direct the concerned authorities to extend the time for at least by 3 months for the renewal of the trade licenses and stamping of delivery units in petrol bunks. He said that the Kerala government had already issued orders extending the deadline by 3 months for renewal and stamping process. The party convenor has also attached the order copy of the same for the perusal of the CS. (Maxim News)