The apple juice outlets run by the Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Marketing Processing Corporation Limited (HPMC) at railway stations are set to become the thing of the past.
Though 11 HPMC outlets were functioning in railway stations in the Southern Railway’s Chennai division last year, they are down to three now and they too are facing closure. “The licence has not been renewed and we have sent representations and are keeping our fingers crossed,” says HPMC (a Himachal Pradesh govt. undertaking) salesman A. Achan Kunju, who manages the outlets in Chennai Beach and Tambaram stations. The outlet in Egmore may close in August.
