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New Delhi: It is just past 10 pm on a Wednesday, and the crowd at Delhis famed Connaught Place market has already started to thin. Except for pubs, restaurants and the odd paan shop, most commercial establishments have shut down for the day..
By midnight, the market thats bustling in the day becomes what a passerby describes as a dead scene its wide roads are almost empty, barring a few lingering groups of people...
Earlier this week, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal gave the approval for 155 establishments to stay open round-the-clock the latest of successive governments attempts to promote the citys night economy..
A Delhi government official told ThePrint that some efforts have been made in the past to push the citys night economy in the early 2000s, for instance, the then Congress government under Sheila Dikshit announced a bazaar to promote night shopping but such plans never materialised...
He talked to ThePrint about a time in the late 80s and early 90s when Delhis nightlife wasthriving owing not only to the citys five-star coffee-shop-going elite but also section of population that looked for a cheap and cheerful nightlife that often took them to South Delhis Moolchand, where several dhabas were notoriously open through the night...
