East mulls taxing corporate food outlets
12 Jun 2012 12:41 AM GMT
East Delhi Municipal Corporation [EDMC] is mulling proposal to tap corporate food outlets by exacting licensing fees. The corporation is also slated to make its licensing policy easier to bring all dhabas, restaurants, food outlets and small hotels under its tax net.
‘The corporate food outlets charge heavily and the licensing fee is not in proportion. We will soon revise it and simplify the policy so that more and more vendors could get licenses,’ said Annapurna Mishra, Mayor, EDMC. The issue was raised in the short notice discussion of the House in which councillors raised the matter of unhygienic food, water, ice, sugar cane juice and meat in the city.
In a written reply to the House, the corporation submitted that only 241 licensed restaurants and dhabas are running in its jurisdiction. But they accepted that 654 restaurants and dhabas were challaned only from January this year. These answers anguished the councillors cutting across party line and they demanded the corporation to come up with broad guidelines of licensing.
‘The poor people should not be punished but promoted to get the license. The corporation should make the licence policy easy and accessible to everyone and corruption free,’ said Varyam Kaur, Leader of Opposition in EDMC.
The members also shows their concern on fruits, ice-creams unhygienic food being sold on the streets and demanded its regulation. The councillors also demanded action against Reliance Store being run in Jhilmil which is reportedly running in an illegal building.
‘The corporate food outlets charge heavily and the licensing fee is not in proportion. We will soon revise it and simplify the policy so that more and more vendors could get licenses,’ said Annapurna Mishra, Mayor, EDMC. The issue was raised in the short notice discussion of the House in which councillors raised the matter of unhygienic food, water, ice, sugar cane juice and meat in the city.
In a written reply to the House, the corporation submitted that only 241 licensed restaurants and dhabas are running in its jurisdiction. But they accepted that 654 restaurants and dhabas were challaned only from January this year. These answers anguished the councillors cutting across party line and they demanded the corporation to come up with broad guidelines of licensing.
‘The poor people should not be punished but promoted to get the license. The corporation should make the licence policy easy and accessible to everyone and corruption free,’ said Varyam Kaur, Leader of Opposition in EDMC.
The members also shows their concern on fruits, ice-creams unhygienic food being sold on the streets and demanded its regulation. The councillors also demanded action against Reliance Store being run in Jhilmil which is reportedly running in an illegal building.
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