Shaurya Sharma
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 14, 2020: The people of Punjab and Hotel industry is totally in jittery and confusing situation as there seems to be nobody to clarify the things, said MS Virk President Hotel Association Sirhind Fatehgarh Sahib.
He said that though Punjab Govt. has allowed to hold marriage functions with 50 persons but has not clarified that where to hold these functions. The Govt in Punjab is not allowing the hotels to hold such small function in their banquet halls and people of Punjab are now doing functions in Chandigarh as Chandigarh administration has allowed hotels to dine with 60% capacity and to arrange functions up to 50 persons. He said hoteliers in Punjab are facing huge losses and are now totally in completely devastating situation, facing hunger.
He further said that we are paying and feeding our workers since last 3 months of lockdown without any income and now it has become almost impossible to even feed our families and not able to meet daily expenses even medical treatments of our ailing family members.
Besides We are likely to default on bank loans, pspcl bills as interest of bank loans is accumulating. Our labour is fleeing.
Allowing only take away is not doing anything and serving any purpose as we don't get much customers and in fact our workers are more than customers that daily we are getting.
We should be allowed dining and to hold functions in our banquet halls though with limited capacity immediately to save us from hunger and devastating situation that we are facing. No doubt there is a great challenge of CORONA but we assure you to follow all your guidelines.