hyderabad after multiplexes now visitors cannot carry food including drinking water bottles to heritage site premises tourists visiting the golconda fort were in for a rude surprise on saturdayi came here with my children and had packed food in tiffin boxes but security guards rudely asked us to leave the food and water outside said samar gupta a resident of sainikpurithese rules did not exist a few months ago authorities should think from tourists side as well when they implement such rules they must remember that there are children and elderly who come from faraway places and need food and water they cannot force us to buy everything from their canteen inside said guptagolkonda fort and its surroundings are spread across 11 kms and exploring it can be an arduous task for any tourist the new rules implemented a month ago is leading to altercations between tourists and security guards at the entranceupset over new rules that prohibit them from carrying food inside the fort some visitors have said that they were asked not to enter the garden near the main gate of the fortthe new rules do not even allow us to enter the garden area i came here with my mother who is an aged person and needs to sit from time to time she was asked not to enter the garden to sit for a while even when explained her problem when asked for a wheelchair we were informed that they have just one wheelchair available at the premises said mohammed imran a 24yearold resident of misri gunjthe security personnel who have been asked to check the bags of tourists for food items say that the fort does not even have the facility of a locker room to store the food items that they collect from the touristswe have arguments with tourists because most of them do not want to leave the food outside though they come from faraway places we must follow rules authorities should at least arrange for a locker room because there is no place to keep the food and water bottles that we collect from the tourists said a senior security personnel at the fort