Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Sunday, Sep 28, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Sunday, Sep 28, 2003 |
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Industry & Economy
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Hotels Plea to formulate `single window' licence for hotels Our Bureau
Kolkata , Sept. 27 THE Hotel & Restaurant Association of Eastern India (HRAEI) has urged the State governments to formulate a "single window" licence covering every aspect of its functioning as against about 21 taxes and licences which a hotel/restaurant has now to pay in order to be in business. The association has stated that the single window licence, once introduced, will give entrepreneurs time to concentrate on developing this highly potential industry rather than spending time on getting/renewing these licences year-after-year. HRAEI, the largest representative body for the hotel/restaurant industry in the eastern region with about 400-members, has urged the Centre to review its maximum retail pricing (MRP) policy so that hotels and restaurants are not harassed. Hotels and restaurants are being asked to sell packed commodities such as mineral water, soft drinks and soda to customers, at not more than the MRP as stipulated in the Packaged Commodities Rules, 1977, that is, the price a customer pays when he is buying the same things from the neighbourhood grocery. The association also does not find any logic in the insistence that hotels and restaurants follow MRP even on loose commodities. Hence, it has made a request for revision of the MRP policy.
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