Illegal liquor shops bugging industrialists, workers in Okhla Industrial Area
Updated: Jun 18, 2015 05:01:26pm
New Delhi, June 18 (KNN) The officials and workers of Delhi’s Okhla Industrial Area are under constant fear of drunken people, owing the increasing number of wine and beer shops in the area, due to which they prefer to leave early in the evening.
The Okhla based industrialists hail the infrastructural development but complain that there are approximately 150 illegal beer and wine shops in the area with 2-3 shops in each block.
President of Okhla Industrial Area, Harish Arora, told KNN, “Despite the infrastructural development in the Okhla Industrial Area, the industry is in under constant fear and threat of the drunken truck drivers who eventually have occupied the roads in the area for parking their trucks.”
Arora said the well-constructed roads within the area are rather utilized by the truck drivers who, without any permission from any authority park their trucks on the roads.
Arora said the even on the roads as high as 80 feet, the shops are being established and run.
According to the Excise Rule, particularly, Rule 11 of Delhi Intoxicants License and Sales Rules, 1976, "No liquor shop for consumption 'on' the premises shall be located within a distance of 75 meters from any industrial estate and other major construction site”.
The shop owners have been openly violating the law for long, affecting the working of the industry, said an industrialist.
Arora said the increasing number of liquor shops and illegal parking by the truck drivers has caused too much of chaos in the area creating difficulty for the workers.
The Okhla Industrial Area President pointed that the matter has been reported to the SHO of the Area, who took some action and removed all the shops and trucks.
“But eventually it has started all over again,” he added. (KNN/J)
The Okhla based industrialists hail the infrastructural development but complain that there are approximately 150 illegal beer and wine shops in the area with 2-3 shops in each block.
President of Okhla Industrial Area, Harish Arora, told KNN, “Despite the infrastructural development in the Okhla Industrial Area, the industry is in under constant fear and threat of the drunken truck drivers who eventually have occupied the roads in the area for parking their trucks.”
Arora said the well-constructed roads within the area are rather utilized by the truck drivers who, without any permission from any authority park their trucks on the roads.
Arora said the even on the roads as high as 80 feet, the shops are being established and run.
According to the Excise Rule, particularly, Rule 11 of Delhi Intoxicants License and Sales Rules, 1976, "No liquor shop for consumption 'on' the premises shall be located within a distance of 75 meters from any industrial estate and other major construction site”.
The shop owners have been openly violating the law for long, affecting the working of the industry, said an industrialist.
Arora said the increasing number of liquor shops and illegal parking by the truck drivers has caused too much of chaos in the area creating difficulty for the workers.
The Okhla Industrial Area President pointed that the matter has been reported to the SHO of the Area, who took some action and removed all the shops and trucks.
“But eventually it has started all over again,” he added. (KNN/J)
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