Delhi’s hotels, restaurants, and other Delhi businesses will soon be open 24 hours a day. In the near future, more than 300 establishments in the nation’s capital will be allowed to conduct business around-the-clock, including hotels, cafes, and online delivery services for food, medications, supplies, and other vital goods.
The request to exempt 314 such petitions, some of which had been languishing since 2016, was granted by Delhi Lt. Governor V.K. Saxena just a few weeks before Diwali. The LG has ordered that this notice be released within seven days. Such requests have been outstanding since 2016.
Details about Delhi’s hotels, restaurants, and other businesses will soon be open 24 hours a day:
The decision will also give the City’s much-desired “night life” a boost. In approving the request, Delhi LG expressed its “extremely critical view” of the labour department’s “inordinate delay, ad hocism, randomness, and unwarranted discretion” in handling the petitions submitted by the firms for these exemptions.
In a show of unexplained discretion on the part of the Labour Department, “These applications were kept pending for no reason even as just 02 applications, one of 2017 and another of 2021, were processed and sent for approval, which strongly indicated the prevalence of corrupt practises,” stated the LG.
This demonstrates the Labour Department’s utter lack of professionalism and diligence, and it amounts to the Department processing such applications according to a “choose and choose policy.” A system like that can also encourage unethical behaviour. The trust and attitudes of the business sector as a whole are also badly impacted by the excessively delayed processing of such regular applications, he continued.
The proposal to exclude 314 petitions of hotel and restaurant operators, internet eateries, pharmacies, and other vital commodities to be authorised to operate on a 24×7 basis in the National Capital, commencing from next week, has been granted by Lt. Governor VK Saxena.
The ruling, which exempts businesses from certain requirements under Sections 14, 15, and 16 of the Delhi Shops and Establishments Act of 1954, is anticipated to increase employment and foster the kind of favourable business environment needed for economic growth.
Commercial establishments are permitted to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, subject to exemptions under Sections 14, 15, and 16 of the aforementioned Act.
