How to destroy a booming market.
A short post ft. the Haryana excise department.
The video is of Sector 29 on a Sunday evening. Shutters down. Shops sitting with no tenants. Half of them had not even bothered to open.
This is the same market that once ran a parking mafia. Tickets of 50, 100, sometimes more, just to park. Cars crawling all night. You could not get in.
I stood there this Sunday and there was nothing. 10 percent of the old crowd, maybe less.
A few years ago this place did not feel like India. At night the whole market was shining. Music, lights, people everywhere, that feeling of standing somewhere abroad for a few hours. Today it is quiet and in shambles.
Everyone will tell you the towing killed it. GMDA lifted thousands of cars, Sector 29 topped the list, people got scared and stopped coming. That scared some of them off. The market was already bleeding from somewhere else.
That somewhere else opened right next door, with a friendly name. BYOB. Bring your own booze. Sounds like freedom.
Except you cannot bring your own booze. A friend lands from abroad, hands you a bottle of scotch from duty free, and they stop you at the door. You get in only if you buy the liquor from their shop. The one attached to the place. So the name is a lie. It is a liquor shop wearing a restaurant costume.
Now look at what the licensed bars were carrying. Haryana raises the bar license fee almost every year. A proper brewery or bar in Sector 29 pays that every single year before it pours one glass. The BYOB next door pays none of it. No license. No excise weight. And it still charges food prices as high as the bar it is busy killing.
Here is the part that should end the argument. Around 2 years ago some of these BYOB spots quietly built a mezzanine floor over the ground seating to double the covers. No fire safety. No clearance worth the name. The places breaking every rule got bigger. The places following every rule shut down. The mezzanines were pulled later, but by then the crowd had already moved.
And the young crowd never cared about any of this. The BYOBs stay open till 4 in the morning. Live music, belly dance, theme nights, pool parties. Sector 29 with its licenses and its rules and its closing time could not fight a format that had no rules to begin with.
Then look at the real estate. Around 3 years ago an SCO here was touching 50 CR. Today those same units are hard to sell. The rent is so high that nobody can run a business that covers it, so the shutter just stays down. The demand is still there. It just walked next door, to the cheaper version with no license and no rules.
That is how you destroy a booming market. You charge the ones who follow the law every single year, you leave the ones who break it completely free, and then you act surprised when the lawful ones are the first to die.
MEITY flexing its muscle by summoning META officers by constantly summoning them and demanding answers for deleting Modi’s video accidentally for a few minutes.
This is its Global Affairs officer leaving from the MEITY office.
They are active 24/7 nonstop to tackle this issue.
Just notice the water logging in front of the MEITY office, even the American META global affairs officer must be laughing thinking if they showed this seriousness on other issues, their country would be in a better shape today.
Just before the Delhi election, AAP leader @AAPNareshBalyan was jailed under stringent laws.
He spent nearly two years in prison and was repeatedly denied bail because of the severity of the charges.
Now, after 2 years, the court has ordered his release due to lack of evidence.
Dharmendra Pradhan's daughter, Naimisha Pradhan, completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, United States.
Tuition for full-time, in-person programs at The Fletcher School at Tufts University is approximately 56,63,524.77 Indian Rupee.
Salary of Dharmendra Pradhan before resignation - 1 lakh per month
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Without interrupting him even once, @manakgupta allowed the BJP spokesperson to openly lie on national television, despite knowing that the "tere tukde honge" slogan was never raised from the CJP stage. Instead of correcting the misinformation, @news24tvchannel gave the BJP spokesperson a free platform to push its agenda.
ASHUTOSH CALLS BJP’S TUKDE TUKDE BLUFF LIVE ON AIR 🚨
KK SHARMA: “Bharat Mata tere tukde honge” slogans came from CJP’s stage.
ASHUTOSH RANKA 🔥: Show the video right now. If that happened on our stage, I will personally leave CJP.
KK SHARMA: Let me finish. I will send the videos later.
ASHUTOSH 🎯: This is not your usual debate. Evidence first. Show the video.
MANAK GUPTA: KK Sharma does not have the video right now. He says he will show it later.
ASHUTOSH 💥: Hawabaazi khatam.