Haji Ali Juice Centre exists in three different locations on municipal records
If the municipal records are anything to go by, then the Haji Ali Juice Centre exists at three different places in the city. While the popular eatery operates from a single outlet located near the Haji Ali Dargah on the Lala Lajpatrai Road, municipal records list the presence of the eatery at three different locations distinguished by separate postal index numbers (PIN).
The pin code is a six digit code that specifies the postal address of a premise. A property can have only one pin code. Documents available with DNA, however, reveal that three different pin codes, 26, 11 and 34, have been provided for procuring permissions from the shops and establishments department, license department and the hydraulic department for operating the outlet. Even description of the postal addresses, the road and the chowk names, varies from one another.
The information was procured on the basis of an RTI application recently made by social activist Amit Maru with the collector’s office. Maru had sought copies of various permissions given to the juice centre. Replying to the application, the collector’s office, attached copies of bills levied on the eatery by various civic departments, along with a copy of the permission. The copies revealed the startling information.
On its brochures, the outlet, declares its postal address as that existing on Lala Lajpatrai Road, Haji Ali Circle, Mumbai-26. While registering the unit with the shops and establishments department, the same address has been used. However, while getting permission for displaying the outlet’s nameplate with the license department of the BMC, the juice centre has specified its postal address as being near Haji Ali Dargah, Mumbai-11. A third version of the postal address has been used for water and sewerage connections. Even the name of the juice centre has been altered in this case.
The address specified here is Race Course Juice Centre, Vatsala Desai Chowk, Haji Ali, Mumbai-34. The juice centre has been functioning since 1989.
While civic officials attributed the difference in postal address to a lack of coordination between departments, Maru alleged that the lapses could well be deliberate. The shops is registered at the postal address it uses, however, for setting up a nameplate at the site and sewerage connections, a separate postal address has been used.
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