ISBT Kashmere Gate keep out newspaper vendors
11 May 2013 12:35 AM GMT
Newspaper agents and vendors at the ISBT Kasmere Gate were left in a lurch on Friday with police officials posted at the terminus refusing to allow entry to newspaper vans inside the terminus. The terminus has served as a collection point for newspapers for over 40 years.
Rajesh Jain, a newspaper agent who operates from there, said, 'When we tried to go in on Friday, police officials stopped us. They said the manager had ordered that the terminus shouldn't be used a collection point for newspapers with effect from Friday. After much coaxing he finally let us in on Friday, but warned us that from Saturday onwards, we wouldn't be allowed the use of the terminus.
We have hardly two hours business at the terminus. None of our vendors use the terminus as a selling point. Newspapers are just distributed there to different vendors.'
An industry insider said that the decision to disallow the use of the terminus as a collection point for newspapers was taken after a newspaper in the city reported that the recently revamped terminus, inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on 2 May, is not being properly maintained. This allegedly prompted the ISBT Kashmere Gate management to ban the use of the Terminus as a collection point for newspapers. 'The reason given was that the dumping and distribution of newspapers makes the Terminus dirty,' the source said.
The decision has put newspapers agents and vendors in a fix. 'It is an important collection point and newspapers are collected from here for distribution is all the neighbouring areas. We can't do the business of collecting and distributing papers outside the terminus as the papers may be stolen if dumped in the open or get wet during the monsoons. We do hope the ISBT Kashmere Gate management will allow us to transact business there as we have been doing for years,' said Jain.
Rajesh Jain, a newspaper agent who operates from there, said, 'When we tried to go in on Friday, police officials stopped us. They said the manager had ordered that the terminus shouldn't be used a collection point for newspapers with effect from Friday. After much coaxing he finally let us in on Friday, but warned us that from Saturday onwards, we wouldn't be allowed the use of the terminus.
We have hardly two hours business at the terminus. None of our vendors use the terminus as a selling point. Newspapers are just distributed there to different vendors.'
An industry insider said that the decision to disallow the use of the terminus as a collection point for newspapers was taken after a newspaper in the city reported that the recently revamped terminus, inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on 2 May, is not being properly maintained. This allegedly prompted the ISBT Kashmere Gate management to ban the use of the Terminus as a collection point for newspapers. 'The reason given was that the dumping and distribution of newspapers makes the Terminus dirty,' the source said.
The decision has put newspapers agents and vendors in a fix. 'It is an important collection point and newspapers are collected from here for distribution is all the neighbouring areas. We can't do the business of collecting and distributing papers outside the terminus as the papers may be stolen if dumped in the open or get wet during the monsoons. We do hope the ISBT Kashmere Gate management will allow us to transact business there as we have been doing for years,' said Jain.
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