Hospitality body says new Maharashtra Covid rules to hurt hotels, eateries

Urges state to allow operations till 11 p.m. at least as against 10 p.m. currently

Maharashtra government’s latest regulation for hotels and restaurants that mandates them to close down after 10pm amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases, will have an adverse impact on their overall operations and will “debilitate the sector,” the apex body Hotel and Restaurant Association of Western India (HRAWI) said in a statement.

It has requested the state government to allow it to operate at least till 11 p.m. “Hotels and restaurants had just started to return to normalcy after about 15 months of restricted operations. After the two successive lockdowns, hotels and restaurants have infused significant capital to reopen and