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In a European makeover, the <keyword id="180135" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="New-Delhi-Municipal-Corporation">New Delhi Municipal Corporation</keyword> (<keyword id="6373991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="NDMC">NDMC</keyword>) backed by the <keyword id="6696781" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Urban-development-ministry">Urban Development ministry</keyword> has plans to make the inner circle of the much famed Connaught Place (CP) car free for a month. This is just a trial project for a few months, NDMC has claimed earlier. 
 
 
The inner circle of CP is lined with numerous good places to eat, drink and be merry. Apart from that, there are tons of fashion outlets by several international brands. India’s one of the most expensive office place records more than 5 lakh visitors every day. While going car free is a welcome move, but given too many hurdles in implementing is something that needs special focus. 
 
While NDMC has plans to introduce battery operated rickshaws and rented bicycles for the daily commuters, and parking spots in the outer circle, many experts feel this may give way to maximum chaos. 
 
According to the New Delhi Traders’ Association, who has signed a petition to the ministry has noted that this will not only drop the economic activity in the area but also will result in loss of jobs as well. 
 
Here are the issues that still haven’t been answered: 
 
British architecture According to restaurateur <keyword id="138484" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Priyank-Sukhija">Priyank Sukhija</keyword> , who owns a lot of <keyword id="117643" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="FB">F&amp;B</keyword> places in Delhi, “CP has a 14 feet long pedestrian walking space plus the footpath. And then car park space. It's already pedestrian friendly. The britishers created it with a lot of planning. It has no red lights and traffic however slow is moving because of so many exits.” 
 
Lack of facilities In a long post on Facebook, <keyword id="3935269" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="sukhija">Sukhija</keyword> also said, “CP is not wheelchair friendly and old citizens. Some of them who are traders won't be able to walk this much every day.” 
 
Security issue “Sukhija also pointed out that there is a lack of adequate parking space in outer circle or <keyword id="8859" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shivaji">Shivaji</keyword> stadium and <keyword id="1303348" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Palika">Palika</keyword> parking. People walking to the Shivaji stadium late in the night might be teased or robbed,” concluded Sukhija. 
Most people who frequent CP often return home late at night, and parking far from inner circle would require implementing more security along the roads. 
 Sikha Nandini, a designer by profession staying at <keyword id="6361054" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="South-Delhi">South Delhi</keyword> and having her boutique in inner circle told <keyword id="824043" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-Insider">Business Insider</keyword>,” I don’t know how it is planned! Most days I return at 10:30PM on cabs. Now walking to the outer circle everyday at that hour isn’t a sane idea.”

Connaught Place inner circle is becoming a car free zone. Be
prepared for the mess

The recent execution of the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">Supreme Court’s judgement</a> on putting a ban on alcohol sales within 500 metres of national and state highways has been made effective since April 1. 
 However, at this point, the people who are at stake belong to the business of hospitality. In most cities across India, there are star hotels on the highways, strategically located for better connectivity and luxury of space. In the metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, <keyword id="6354321" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bengaluru">Bengaluru</keyword>, Chennai and other cities like <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">Chandigarh, Jaipur and Lucknow </a>invite a lot of tourists both domestic and foreign because of their hospitality infrastructure. Most hotels lined up on the highways have a bar to make sure the guests are taken care of. While the argument of whether alcohol is the a decent way to enjoyment is a different argument, but the fact that can’t be denied is alcohol helps the economy of the state to profit way better than other luxury, thanks to high excise duty. 
 
Even if that isn’t enough to back up the logic on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">importance of alcohol</a>, what’s far more serious is loss of jobs. About one million people would be chucked out from their jobs. In a country where engineering graduates line up for Grade 4 rank jobs in the government, such is the scarcity of openings; getting fired from jobs for a court order is abominable. 
 
While the government should have enforced better vigilance and made stricter punishments to curb on drunken driving, this verdict is more like uprooting a whole tree because one branch of it was interfering with the electrical wires. 
 Serial entrepreneur and a renowned name in the hospitality industry, <keyword id="138484" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Priyank-Sukhija">Priyank Sukhija</keyword>, recently mentioned on a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/1-million-people-to-lose-job-inindia-blame-drunken-driving-for-it/articleshow/57971679.cms">Facebook post</a>, “Last month had to painfully say goodbye to 85 staff members because of the sealing of rooftops in CP which the <keyword id="6373991" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="NDMC">NDMC</keyword> has no consideration for ... ruining the most epic hub in the country ! This month it would be more than 100 after the 500 metre ban.” 
 Even Amitabh <keyword id="287016" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kant">Kant</keyword>, CEO of NITI Aayog is equally vocal about the crisis. In one of his recent tweets, Kant wrote,” TOURISM creates jobs. Why kill it? SC's highway liquor ban verdict may hit one million jobs.”

Supreme Court’s decision of banning alcohol on the highways
doesn’t make much sense and is quite harmful. Here’s why

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	Kanchan is a self-learner, highly determined young woman entrepreneur. She believes that there is no end of learning, thus takes inspiration from everyone and everything around her. She believes that an investment in Knowledge pays the best interest. It is a gift that no one can take away and every child born in this country deserves this gift. This affirms her association with SUIT NGO as a Treasurer, which works towards upliftment of Underprivileged Children.
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