NEW DELHI: Delhi LG VK Saxena on Monday constituted a high-power committee to ease and facilitate license requirements for restaurants and eateries. The committee will examine the existing regulations and suggest ways of expediting the licensing processes. Apart from providing an overall fillip to the hospitality sector, this would pave the way for late night dining, alfresco eateries and dining in open air and terraces, an official statement stated. The committee headed by Principal Secretary (Home) and comprising senior representatives of the IT Department, Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), MCD, Delhi Police, Fire Services and NDMC, will inter alia focus on reducing the number of licenses, tweaking and deleting archaic regulations rooted in subordinate legislation, minimum documentation, fixed timelines for grant of licenses, complete online processes embedded in a single window portal and promotion of self regulation etc. The committee will be able to co-opt members and will take comprehensive input from stakeholder hotel and restaurant associations, etc. The LG has directed the committee to submit its report/recommendations within 15 days. The move comes in continuation with of LG’s recent decision to allow 314 establishments that include online delivery services of food, medicines, logistics, transport and travel services, other essential commodities apart from KPOs and BPOs, applications of whose were pending since as long back as 2016, to operate on a 24X7 basis in the national capital.
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