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Gurugram liquor vends: Special queues for women, senior citizens and corona warriors
After almost 45 days of lockdown, the tipplers in Gurugram had something to cheer on Wednesday with the opening of liquor vends.
The high spirits were clearly visible in the "socially distanced" way as people stood patiently in kilometres long queues battling high temperature and soaring sun.
However, what made the Gurugram vends different was the liquor shops went on reserving special queues for women, senior citizens, specially-abled and even corona warriors who were also given special discounts.
"Like any other industry or citizen, we owe a lot to corona warriors and thus to salute them we not just made special queues for them but also have discounts to doctors and other frontline warriors. As far as women are concerned, they are regular customers and keeping their convenience in mind we reserved them separate queues," said a vend owner of DLF city.
Interestingly showing solidarity with the soldiers killed in Hundwara, one of the liquor vend owners in Baadshahpur area offered special discounts and queues for Army veterans and even gave free liquor to next of kin of martyrs on production of valid I-cards.
"This is all I can do. We come from a village where every house has a soldier and thus this is what we could do for them. Liquor is like any commodity. Had I been running a grocery store, I would have given grocery for free," said Satish Yadav, the vend owner.
Day one meanwhile kept Gurugram police on its toes that toiled the entire day keeping people and vehicles in check.
Interestingly the number of vehicles increased by 40 per cent today as compared to last two days of lockdown relaxation.
It was however the border which proved to be tougher fight with many people from Delhi trying to enter Gurugram to get liquor stock citing closure of vends in their areas or increased liquor rates.
"The police had extra workload but we pulled it off perfectly. Unlike national pictures of chaos at vends we ensured social distancing and no nonsense. We have told all vend owners and people that self-discipline is key to keep things running. Any kind of chaos and we will shut the shops," said CP Mohammad Akil.
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https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/gurugram-liquor-vends-special-queues-for-women-senior-citizens-and-corona-warriors-81232
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