<h1>Punjab State Traders Commission for upgrading local markets and handling traders' grievances, with tax simplification role clarified</h1> The Punjab State Traders Commission was presented as a state-level mechanism to upgrade local markets and resolve pending operational grievances of small shopkeepers and traders; its operative effect is to provide an institutional forum for processing trader issues and coordinating remedial action. The commission was also stated to pursue simplification, transparency, and trader-friendliness in the tax system; its operative effect would be administrative recommendations and facilitation aimed at reducing compliance frictions for traders, without announcing any enacted change to GST or other statutory tax liabilities.