Around 400 restaurants and 300 small eateries added to 1500 bakeries have shut shop in the city owing to the state wide bandh called by the Tamil Nadu Hoteliers Association protesting against GST taxation system, which comes in to play. Lending their support to the bandh call druggist and medical shops too downed their shutters in the city, which threw normal life out of gear.
The Hoteliers Associations in South India are participating in the bandh and Kerala and Pondicherry associations too have extended their support to the bandh.
Tamilnadu All Traders Federation headed by Vikkiramaraja has expressed its support to today's bandh and a call was given to druggists and medical shops to join the bandh by the Federation, when he met the press in Coimbatore.
The Government run Amma Unavagams across the city are remaining opened and doing brisk business as other restaurants have downed shutters. But most of medical shops across the city have also downed shutter, responding to the call given by various traders’ bodies they are attached too.
“The high rates of taxation announced by the Union Government in GST would cripple the hotel industry and it would be an unbearable burden for the common man and the hoteliers “said an hotelier in the city.
The Hoteliers Associations in South India are participating in the bandh and Kerala and Pondicherry associations too have extended their support to the bandh.
Tamilnadu All Traders Federation headed by Vikkiramaraja has expressed its support to today's bandh and a call was given to druggists and medical shops to join the bandh by the Federation, when he met the press in Coimbatore.
The Government run Amma Unavagams across the city are remaining opened and doing brisk business as other restaurants have downed shutters. But most of medical shops across the city have also downed shutter, responding to the call given by various traders’ bodies they are attached too.
“The high rates of taxation announced by the Union Government in GST would cripple the hotel industry and it would be an unbearable burden for the common man and the hoteliers “said an hotelier in the city.