Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 11: Federation of All India Vyapar Mandal (FAIVM) has urged upon the Government of India for providing relaxation in restriction on number of guests at weddings and other ceremonies to save tent, banquet and other associated service providers from starvation.
Federation of All India Vyapar Mandal Jammu and Kashmir, president, Sanjay Bansal in letters written to the Prime Minister and Home Minister has said that 50 persons can attend the wedding ceremony from both sides together and some state governments like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab have reduced the number of 50 to just 30. It is important to mention that no matter how small or large the capacity or size of the tent / banquet hall is, the number of guests will be restricted to 50.
Tent, Pandal, catering, pavilion, banquet hall, as well as millions of people like farm house, hotel, Band Baja, Dhol, DJ, light, decoration, event planner, flower decorators etc who provide services in wedding and other ceremonial functions, have no work since March when lock down was imposed . Other sectors have been opened but due to restriction on number of guests, these people are not getting any job till now and facing hardships, Bansal added.
He said tent catering businessmen are effectively able to get booking only for 60-90 days in an entire year and must manage their livelihood for full year out of this income . This year’s wedding season ended on July 1, 2020 which will now resume again in November and December for a very few auspicious days and then the wedding season will start again from May 2021.
In this connection Federation of All India Vyapar Mandal (FAIVM) has written to Union Home Secretary also who is also chairman of National Executive Committee formed under National Disaster Management Authority and requested him that in the process of unlocking, the restriction on the number of guests in a wedding ceremony should be relaxed and the number of guests should be determined based on the area of the wedding venue (tents, banquet halls, farm houses). All the tents, canopy, banquet hall and farmhouse in India are committed to follow the prescribed SOP in this regard.
The FAIVM has demanded that the number of guests attending the wedding should be decided based on the area of the wedding venue (tents, banquet halls, farmhouses). One guest per 25 square feet should be the benchmark thus in the area of 10,000 sq. feet, 400 guests should be allowed.
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