India, April 16 -- Department of State Transport, Haryana, will hold the auction for commercial spaces inside bus stands in Gurugram, Sohna, and Pataudi on April 28, nearly a year after first announced, to provide shops for restaurants, tea stalls and other businesses, on a lease basis, an official said on Wednesday.

The auction will take place on the premises of Sector 12 bus stand in Gurugram, a transport department senior official, Vimal Sharma, told HT.

The move follows a series of complaints by interested businesspersons about the delay in the auction and the increased rental pressure.

HT spoke to a few shopkeepers at the Sector-12 bus stand in Gurugram. "We have been waiting for the auction for over a year now; the authorities ju...