Mumbai: Several segments of industry have appealed to CM Uddhav Thackeray to refrain from imposing another lockdown, as he hinted in his televised speech to the citizenry Friday evening. Cinema workers, retailers, daily wagers, small traders, etc are all daunted by the prospect of another interruption to livelihood.

The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) wrote its concerns in a letter to Thackeray on Friday. “The community of top producers, actors and actresses who then came together to the rescue of daily wage earners of the fraternity... are themselves now not in a position to provide help...,” FWICE said.

Multiplex owners too point out that no important film has released in the past year.

Kumar Rajagopalan, CEO, Retailers Association of India, said that the government must ease restrictions in shopping centres and instead utilise them to speed up the inoculation drive...”