MOKOKCHUNG, JUNE 8 (MExN): The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (MTLT) has appealed to house owners and the Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) to waive house rents for shop owners.
A press release from the MTLT said that the hardest hit group of people due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown is the business community, especially the local shop owners, who cannot open their shops due to this lockdown.
“Mokokchung town is comparatively small as compared to others and most of the shop owners are local youths who took to business as a means of sustaining their livelihood. Most of the business enterprises are in a nascent stage with small investment and this lockdown is making the business communities to incur huge losses which will take time to recover,” the MTLT noted.
It appreciated those house owners who have waived the house rents of their tenants for some months on humanitarian grounds. The MTLT felt that “this good Samaritan gesture shown by the benevolent house owners would surely assuage the financial and mental problems being faced the tenants.”
It meanwhile said that there are still many business owners, especially those owning shops in the Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) Shopping Complex, who are in great dilemma as to how to pay their shop rents after months of closure. There are also many small time shop owners in and around the town who are facing the same problem of trying to make ends meet, it added.
It appealed to the MMC to waive the house rents of those shop owners in the MMC shopping complex so that the financial burden of the shop owners can be alleviated to some extent. Likewise, the MTLT also appealed to the house owners if they could also at least consider the house rents of their tenants for a few months – if they have not already waived or considered it already.
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