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Hotel deadline harsh on night shift workers

Staff Reporter

If one does not mind a dirt dump and a drain while swatting away mosquitoes, pushcart eateries near Secunderabad railway station or Jubilee bus station are the only choice

HYDERABAD: Hungry and 11 p.m. in Hyderabad usually translates into desperately seeking food.

Forget the yearning for a nightlife that matches the city's growing metropolitan image or rocking to the wave of change that has allegedly been sweeping the city over the last few years.

These have been long-debated and repeatedly reported issues. The debate seems set for a new lease of life after Rajya Sabha member V. Hanumanth Rao made a fervent appeal to Home Minister K. Jana Reddy on Friday. Or is it?

The reality is that asking for a morsel of food after 11 p.m. in this city is blasphemy, while getting it is absolutely out of question.

The only places where lucky explorers of the night can get a meal is from pushcart eateries either near the Secunderabad railway station or near the Jubilee bus station and if you have the pluck, standing alongside those taking swigs directly from the bottle near Paradise.

And these eateries are pleasant if you do not mind having a meal standing between a dirt dump and a drain, swatting away mosquitoes and eating the bread-omelette or made in India-Chinese noodles in a battered steel plate that has just been dipped into brownish water after the last customer threw it into a bucket that has a scrawny dog eating out of it.

Plea to extend deadline

"It is tough for those on night shifts. If asking for pubs to be kept open till 12 a.m. is too much, let's ask at least for a decent hotel to be kept open till midnight," Anish Soni, one of the many who are dropped at their bachelor pads at 2 a.m. from Madhapur, repeats what several others have said all along.

However, the city police Joint Commissioner, Harish Kumar Gupta maintained that there were no instructions from the Government nor were there any plans to extend the deadline, as of now.

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