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| Cash starved JKTDC receives financial blow from ED | | |
Arun Singh
Jammu, July 1: Already facing severe financial hiccups, Jammu and Kashmir Tourist Development Corporation (JKTDC) is receiving another blow from the Estate Department (ED) as Corporation is being paid very low rent of its accommodations situated at prime locations across the state being used by bureaucrats incurring huge loss of revenue allegedly in connivance with the officials of Corporation and Estate Department.
Sources told Early Times the officers of the State Government are lodged in the hotels, huts facilities of the Company at TRC Srinagar, Cheshmashahi huts, Hotel Heemal and Lalarukh in Srinagar city and Tourist Reception Center (TRC) Jammu in Jammu city.
"Director Estates is the nodal agency for fixing and payment of rentals to the Company. There was a huge gap between the normal tariff fixed by the Company and tariff allowed by the Estates Department," they said.
They further informed that the normal tariff fixed by the company of Cheshmashahi Huts for three double bed room huts is Rs 10,000 but the tariff being paid by the Estate department is Rs 1800 per day. Likewise the rent of two double bed room huts has been fixed company is Rs 8000 but Estate Department paying Rs 1450 and for one bed room huts company's rent is Rs 6000 and getting just Rs 1200.
Similarly the accommodation of JKTDC at TRC Srinagar and Hotel Heemal for two bed rooms is Rs 3500 and getting Rs 1450 as rent from ED and Hotel Lalarukh's rent has been fixed as Rs 2800 but getting only Rs 900, they added.
There is variation of between Rs 1900 and Rs 8200 per room/ hut for single day in the normal tariff and the tariff of the Estates Department in respect of the above referred accommodation, they maintained.
They further informed that JKTDC had been persistently requesting the Government to vacate the huts or alternatively raise the tariffs but no action had been taken in this regard. Moreover the Committee on Public Undertakings had directed the Company to get the accommodation at Cheshmashahi vacated in a phased manner within a period of six months. However, no action had been taken by the Company/ Government on the directions of the Committee and the accommodation continued to be under the occupation of State Government employees. |
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