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LG vs CM in Delhi: Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has rejected the Kejriwal government’s decision to open hotels and allow weekly markets for a week on a trial basis.

Highlights

• LG Anil Baijal of Delhi dismisses 2 important decisions of Kejriwal government regarding Unlock-3
• LG has rejected the Kejriwal government’s decision to open hotels in Delhi from August 1.
• LG also rejected the decision to open weekly markets on a trial basis for a week
• A day earlier on Thursday, the Kejriwal government made important announcements related to Unlock-3 to open the economy.

The latest episode of the collision of LG Anil Baijal vs CM Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi has also included the guidelines of Unlock-3 (Delhi Unlock-3). LG (rejects CM Kejriwal’s decisions) has rejected 2 big decisions taken by the Kejriwal government regarding Unlock-3. These are both decisions – opening of hotels and permission to open weekly markets for a week on a trial basis.

In the decisions taken under the guidelines of Unlock-3, the Delhi government has abolished the night curfew, the night curfew was earlier from 10 am to 5 am. Since the hotels in Delhi are no longer connected to hospitals, the Delhi government has decided to allow the normal functioning of hotels. As already, hospitality services have been allowed according to the unlocked guidelines of the central government. A Delhi government official said that the SOP will be released on Friday about the opening of the hotels and normal functioning in the hotels is expected to begin from August 1.

The Delhi government allowed street hawkers to work in Delhi from 10 am to 8 pm on a trial basis. Today it has been decided that in future the road hawkers will be allowed to do their work without any time limit. The Delhi government has allowed weekly markets to operate with social distancing and all necessary precautionary measures for a week on a trial basis. After the release of attached hotels from Kovid Hospitals in Delhi, now the expectation of opening them to the public soon has increased.

Hotel traders were demanding from the Delhi government that their hotels should now be allowed to start. The government is working on several fronts to boost the economy of Delhi. The committee of the government is also working. The street vendors have also been allowed to work. A day earlier, the government released about 40 hotels associated with Kovid hospitals. Due to Corona being controlled in Delhi, there are no patients in the care centers built in the hotels, so the hotel operators had appealed to de-link these Kovid care centers.

It was then decided to de-link the Kovid care centers built in the hotels. At the same time, the Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI), a trade association, has also demanded the Delhi government to allow hotels to be opened. CTI Chairman Brijesh Goel said that in the video conferencing on Thursday, hoteliers had demanded that a lot of activities are being opened in Unlock 3. Hotels should also be allowed to start now. He said that he had put this demand of hoteliers soon before the Delhi government.