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| JHRBA urges govt to help sinking hotel industry | | |  EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 20: A meeting of the Jammu Hotels, Restaurant and Bar Association (JHRBA) was held where grave concern was expressed over acute financial distress being faced by the hotels in Jammu. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Raju Chowdhary, President of JHRBA and Managing Director of Hotel Ramada Jammu City Centre.
The other members present were Rattandeep Singh Anand, Managing Director Hotel Asia, Chander Gupta, Managing Director Hotel Fortune Inn Riviera Jammu, Vikram Gupta, Managing Partner Hotel Radisson Blu, Chaitanya Chowdhary, Managing Director Hotel Zone By The Park, Siddhant Chowdhary, Director Hotel Ramada Jammu City Centre and Sanjeev Prabhakar, Managing Director Hotel Anutham.
In the meeting, participants said that the Hotel industry of Jammu has already been on the ventilator since August 2019 and with the recent unprecedented pandemic the hotels have been closed since March 2020.
Now, when the new guidelines for opening up were released by the Government allowing hotels to operate, it was expected that some business will start. But various issues have cropped up which have brought the hotels to a standstill and most of the hotels have not been able to restart their operations, they added.
Electricity charge was the biggest concern which was discussed during the meeting. It has been highlighted time and again that minimum charges should be dispensed with and the actual consumption should be charged with the demand charges being waived off till the hotels resume operations and are able to bring themselves back to some standing.
President JHRBA, Raju Chowdhary urged the government to help the beleaguered Hotel Industry to stand on its feet.
He along with other members demanded that Katra should not be used as a quarantine centre and the passengers should be given the option of staying at different hotels in Jammu as majority of the hotels are Lying absolutely vacant and SOPs are already in place in accordance with the guidelines of the MHA, allow home delivery of alcoholic beverages as is being done in Haryana and Karnataka and also allow sale of alcoholic beverages in marriage related functions being held in the hotels while they also demanded to waive off minimum demand charges for the lockdown period so that in this time of zero inflow of revenue, hotels are not saddled with heavy electricity bills.
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