Mumbai: Resident association asks BMC to permit restaurants to open on all days indiatoday.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatoday.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mumbai hotels and restaurant owners are unhappy with the Maharashtra government and BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for not fulfilling their demands made in a bid to revive the sector. Though the corporation had used hotels during the lockdown to accommodate COVID-19 warriors and for quarantine purposes and the sector had supported the move, but as agreed, several of them have not been paid properly for their services.
One of the aggrieved hoteliers Paramjit Singh Ghai, the managing partner of Hotel Samrat in Khar, said that BMC has been giving them a cold shoulder. BMC has paid the accommodation bills of hotels similar to what they paid for using open grounds and schools, amongst others, which is incorrect. Moreover, now, the state government wants us to pay excise duty on/before March 31 for this financial year. Since we are operating at 50 per cent capacity, a discount should be offered in the payment, including the installment facility. Also, BMC had promised a concess