Panjab University coffee house, 8 shops to be auctioned on October 20, 21

CHANDIGARH: The long awaited auction of the

Indian coffee house

at the

student centre

on the Panjab University campus will be conducted again this month. The university registrar office has announced that the auction of the Indian coffee house along with eight more shops on the north and south campus will be conducted on October 20 and 21.

The auction will be for vacant shop numbers 17, 29, 41, 65, 74 (joint shop),76 (ground floor hall) at the shopping complex, shop number 11 (south India coffee house) at the student centre, Sector 14, PU, and one chemist-cum-dental instruments/consumable shop at Dr

HSJ Institute of Dental Science and Hospital

and shop number 3, south campus, Sector 25.

In March, after a lukewarm response from companies, the authorities decided to go for open auction for the coffee house.

In the proposal, which was sent by the authorities to the vice-chancellor, it was stated that an open auction will be conducted for the coffee house. The base price for which will be Rs 50,000. The authorities also decided that shops, whose lease has expired as per the agreement at the student centre, will also be auctioned.