Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 16: Expressing serious concern over the deteriorating conditions of hotel industry in Jammu, All Jammu Hotels and Lodges Association has demanded power to the hotels at industrial rates.
In a meeting of office bearers of the Association held today, President of AJHLA, Pawan Gupta said that the hotel industry was already on ventilator due to extension of train service from Jammu to Katra and now the hike in power tariff has come as massive blow to the hoteliers.
“Tourism sector has been completely ignored by the administration and as a result of this, a number of hotels and lodges have closed their hotel business as they are unable to sustain the load of huge expenditure with poor income. At this critical juncture, when smokeless hotel industry was expecting the power at par with industrial rates, Government has given a big blow by hiking the power tariff and it would wipe out budget hotels from the tourism map,” he said.
Mr Gupta appealed the Government to provide power at industrial rates instead of commercial rates to at least budget hotels and immediate roll back the power tariff hike in order to save the starving hotel industry of Jammu region.
Other office bearers, present in the meeting, included M L Sharma, Anil Khajuria, Pritam Sharma, H S Manhas, Baldev Raj, Sunil Suri, Swarn Singh, Sankul Gupta, Manpreet Singh, Nishant Gupta and Varun Gupta.
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