Booked to capacity

People travelling to Patna this week are finding it difficult to find accommodation in hotels, as the district administration has booked a large number of rooms for delegates attending Nitish Kumar's swearing-in ceremony as chief minister of Bihar at Patna's Gandhi Maidan today. Kumar's guests are being put up in five-star hotels Maurya and Chanakya; Union ministers and chief ministers of other states, along with senior bureaucrats, will stay at the state guest house; and the security personnel accompanying them are at the circuit house. Members of the Legislative Assembly, who don't have any other accommodation in the city, have been put up in Tier-II hotels. A busy weekend ahead for the city's hospitality sector.