MUMBAI: While thanking the Maharashtra government for giving 7.5% relief in excise fees in the fiscal 2022-23, the hospitality industry in the state has urged the chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to offer 50% fees waiver for the previous fiscal 2021-22 as according to hoteliers the actual operational days at 100% capacity were only 28 out of 365 days.
It is a known fact that almost 30% of Hotels and Restaurants have shut permanently in the subsequent waves of the Pandemic. Several lakhs of employees and the owners were displaced and lost their livelihood. Unfortunately, despite this deplorable plight no relief has been granted to this industry, said a letter by the Hotels and Restaurants Association of Western India (HRAWI) to the CM.
