The Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association (FRTWA) chief Viren Shah along with National Sports Club of India (NSCI) office-bearers Atul Maru and Suresh Seth paid a congratulatory visit to the newly appointed Commissioner of Police (CP) Vivek Phansalkar at the top cop’s Crawford Market headquarters on Thursday morning.

Said Shah, who is also the president-elect of NSCI, “It is customary as a club, we do meet the commissioner to say congratulations. NSCI, though, was not the focus of this meet. As FRTWA chief, my aim was to apprise Phansalkar about various problems we are facing. I also realised that the CP considered us, shopkeepers, as barometers for the common man. Since we are in contact with so many people daily we do have a handle on certain problems the ordinary person faces, he felt.”