Following announcements by NCOC that indoor spaces for wedding ceremonies will be banned due to second wave of COVID-19, wedding hall owners lament they have no money to return advance payments to clients.
They have raised a collective hue and cry to protest new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) rolled out by National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
Among many other instructions laid out by NCOC, including directing public and private offices to cut down their office staff in half by imposing Work From Home arrangements, one of them is banning weddings taking place indoors.
In response, the union of wedding hall owners have requested federal government to reconsider their stance and have asked them of the people will now conduct their functions in the open streets.
They say for six straight months the wedding halls had been in lockdown which has pushed their businesses on the edge of crash.
Talking to a news media outlet, head of wedding halls association Rana Raees said they will not shut down their halls ahead of winters as they cannot pay back advance payments made by their clients.
Is the motive behind such orders to kill us of hunger, Raees lamented.
Claiming “proper discipline on SOPs” he said why it’s only the wedding functions that concern government when it comes to Covid19 spread perhaps referring to other gatherings that have been, intentionally or otherwise, overlooked.
