Non-essential shop owners and traders have suffered financially as strict restrictions have been imposed in Pune.

To create options for customers, new techniques of getting business done by these shop owners are being employed.

Over the past weeks, the inferno of the Covid19 has hammered the Indian population through the carelessness of a large number of people & the indifference of the parties conducting election rallies. The impacts on Maharashtra are no different.

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Several non-essential shop owners around the city of Pune have put up banners outside their shops giving contact details for those in need of purchasing any product.

Similarly, non-essential service providers, like the barbers, have also started circulating contact numbers on social media and are providing home service to customers.

Amit Shinde, a barber from the Bajirao road area stated, “From April first week our shop is closed, but I was getting calls from my regular customers to give home service. Accordingly, we made some social media posts and circulated it amongst our regular customers. Now we daily do home service as per orders.”

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Most telephone and electrical shop owners near the Hatti Ganpati mandal and on Tilak road have put up banners outside their closed shutters.

Shamsher Khan, a mobile shop owner on Tilak road stated, “Customers who want to purchase mobile phones or any accessories can contact us directly. According to their requirements, we send them details on WhatsApp and then sell the product. The delivery is to the home or to the address given by the customer.”

Even customers are looking at this system to purchase non-essential items. Kushal Das, who purchased a water cooler last week from a shop on Sinhagad road, said, “As summer is going on, I wanted to buy a water cooler urgently. So I went to a shop where they had given their contact number, selected the product and made the payment online. Within a couple of hours, the cooler was delivered to my home.”

As per Maharashtra health department, a day after logging the highest 68,631 COVID-19 cases, the state on Monday witnessed a dip in its daily count by recording 58,924 fresh infections and 351 deaths. The department further stated that the overall case tally in the state now stands at 38,98,262 while the toll is 60,824. The state is now left with 6,76,520 active cases.