Hakeem bats for financial package to coronavirus crisis hit horticulture, transport, media sectors

Srinagar: Chairman Peoples Democratic Front ( PDF ) Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen has demanded a comprehensive financial package for fruit growers , transporters and media fraternity of Jammu and Kashmir adding that these vital sectors of state’s fragile economy have been hit hard due to worstever Coronovirus cricis.
In a statement issued here on Friday , Hakeem while demanding a comprehensive package for the fruit industry , transporters and media fraternity , has said that unprecedented cricis in the wake of Covid-19 have put all those people in dock who earn their livelihood in these sectors.He has urged Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir G.C. Murmu to immediately announce a suitable financial stimulus to help the fruit growers , transporters and Journalists to overcome hardships howering over them and their families.
He said besides waiving off Kissan Credit card loans , the government should extend marketing facilities to the Cherry and Strawberry growers to save them from bankruptcy. He said fruit growers of the state have been continuously facing lockdown from 5th August last year till now due to which they could not sell their produce . ” The conditions of transporters was more than miserable who like fruit growers have become the first causality of the pandemic.Hakeem said that in the face of Coronovirus threat , majority of the people are scared to buy news papers from the hawkers.
Hakeem strongly advocated the demands of media associations regarding a full package for the Coronovirus hit media industry . According to Media associations ” many small and medium Newspapers have already suspended publishing news papers and other newspapers are facing serious challenges and if they collapse, it is bound to affect the journalists too. Such a situation will have a ripple effect thus affecting large number of employees, their families as well as printing presses, distribution mechanism, newspaper vendors and delivery boys,”