August 23: Majority of daily essential businesses and services in the valley have been affected due to the lack of coordination among the government agencies during the prohibitory order imposed since Thursday.

Although the District Administration Office has allowed opening food and other necessary consumer goods shop, the business of consumer goods such as groceries, dairy, and meat have been affected as the traders could not go to their shop due to police barricade.

Traders whose shops are distant from their home, complain that the police do not allow them to go to their shops.

Former president of Nepal Retailers Association Pabitra Bajracharya, who stays in New Road, was stopped by the police on the way to his shop at Shwoyambhu. He was not allowed to go to the shop although his customers kept calling him to buy groceries such as rice, lentils, water, salt, sugar and oil.

His shop is closed since Thursday. "I am just an example. There are many traders like me who are deprived of opening their shops due to police obstruction," he told New Business Age.

Although the DAO has issued a notice that grocery shops are allowed to operate, there has been problem as the timeframe has not been specified. Therefore, the police themselves are in dilemma. In most of the places of Kathmandu, the police have allowed to open shops from 5am to 7am.