On Friday, Akshaya Tritiya celebrated all across the country. Amid corona fear People shop at market on relax hours of lockdown. While seeing the mad rush at some jewellery shops, police is also on alert. While the Covid cases are increasing steeply and registering more than 2,000 cases continuously in the district even after one-week of imposing partial lockdown, the gold lovers were not scared but preferred buying the jewellery.

In a media interaction a gold shop owner informed that on the whole there was a dip of about 50 per cent sales compared to the sales on Akshaya Tritiya day in previous years. Many people have booked items earlier and collected them today as it was an auspicious day. A woman felt happy that she could buy gold bangles on Akshaya Tritiya day as she was waiting for it for the last four months. She said that it was their belief that buying gold on this occasion will bring more fortunes to their homes.

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