Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that pandal owners are in dire straits due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors, the Mysuru District Pandal Owners Association has urged the Government to bring pandal industry under the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) sector.
Speaking at the Association’s calendar release programme organised at Pathrakartara Bhavan here recently, Associ-ation Secretary Wasim Akram said that pandal owners who earned a living by lending Pandals, Shamianas, tables, chairs and such other articles on rent to organisers of functions, programmes, ceremonies etc., are now facing a crisis due to loss of business following the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent nationwide lockdown. Maintaining that pandal business is facing a deep crisis, he said that several pandal owners have decided to shut shop due to huge losses on account of lack of business.
