SHAS­TRI BOODAN

GML Cor­re­spon­dent

Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­men are op­er­at­ing as if a cur­few is in ef­fect, says Bal­dath Ma­haraj, head of the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC).

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day, Ma­haraj said the CCIC has not re­ceived any re­ports on the num­ber of raids or suc­cess­es re­sult­ing from the State of Emer­gency (SoE). He re­vealed busi­ness­men are clos­ing shop ear­li­er than usu­al.

“They plan to do that for the next few weeks to come,” he told Guardian Me­dia.

Ma­haraj said the CCIC wants the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty to func­tion bet­ter so na­tion­als can feel a greater sense of se­cu­ri­ty.

“Crime is get­ting so bad that a lot of peo­ple are even get­ting numb to it,” he ob­served.

“Nor­mal­ly, a mur­der 10 years ago would have been very trou­bling. Now, it’s treat­ed as an­oth­er event. We are get­ting so numb to it,” he added.