So
the fate of the New Market shop owners and others in the fraternity was sealed
by the CM in the all Bengal hawkers' conference at Nazrul Mancha yesterday.
Exactly as speculated in my preceding blog post on the New Market shutdown that also ended yesterday,
hawkers have been given the immunity by the CM. Officially every hawker hawking
till 13th March, 2015 will now have license to hawk (other than life insurance
and annual medical reimbursement). Everybody will have 'registered with
government' status. Those who are not registered yet, can do so by paying a fee
of Rs 30. So we pedestrians will now walk on the footpath or road if and where
space is left for that by the hawkers. And shop owners paying all kinds of
taxes to government and corporation will be left to bleed. Wonderful! Would
like to ask "Are we closer to London now?"
The flavour of Kolkata
The city is known for its old alleys. One such is shot by Atanu Pal.
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