TRADERS OUT ON A LIMP

Leather, wooden furniture markets in Mumbai, Delhi had seen 10-50% fall in sales Gujarat’s ceramic tiles clusterin Morbi, too, saw 50% decline High taxrate of 28% deprived traders from making the most of festive season Production expected to resume at Morbi’s~ 30,000-crore tiles cluster Price disparity between organised and unorganised players set to reduce Only half of 2,200 traders in Morbi registered At lowerrate of 18%, unorganised traders likely to join formal sector