Hotels, restaurants, auditoriums in national capital don't require NOCs from Delhi Police as per a new order
Hotels, motels, guesthouses, restaurants, discotheques, amusement parks, auditoriums, swimming pools and video game parlours in the national capital won't require licenses, or no objection certificates from Delhi Police, as per a June 19 order approved by lieutenant governor (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena.
The doing away of procuring the no objection certificates (NOCs) from the police, considered by some to be time consuming and arduous, will boost ease of doing business for the hospitality industry and restaurant industry, industry insiders said.
"This is a very positive step towards bringing in more revenues to Delhi and greater investments in the hotels, clubs and restaurants segment,' said Sandeep Anand Goyale, president of the Delhi chapter of National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI). He said in a meeting with chief minister Rekha Gupta on May 13, the industry body had apprised her of this issue.
'We believe this will also help boost tourism, as the order also covers other critical facets of the tourism ecosystem. Procuring NOCs from police officials was a long rope, and Delhi and West Bengal were the only two states requiring this,' he said. 'Now, under the unified license portal, establishments need a no objection certificate from the fire department, a health trade license, and a Delhi Pollution Control Committee Consent Order,' he added. Simran Sial, a member of the South Delhi Hotel Association said initially, Delhi Police was responsible as the nodal agency for collecting all the other NOCs from rest of the departments and then issuing their own license.
'When the unified license portal was launched, their work was redundant, and we had been discussing this with various departments. We had also sent a presentation to the LG regarding this, as it created unnecessary bottle necks like red tapism at times,' he said.'This is a much-needed change but we are also waiting for Delhi Police to issue their own clarifications as we require clarity on the other nuances. For instance, the parking NOC was issued by Delhi Police so what happens to that,' he added.The June 19 order stated that the government of India, with an intention to achieve the motto of 'minimum government and maximum governance' has taken up an initiative to reduce multiple licensing regimes, being followed in different states/union territories and requested for simplifying licensing procedures. 'Progressive states like Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra etc have already done away with the requirement of licenses from police for the above categories,' stated the order.
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