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Over hundred hotel rooms vacant, but not available Welcome to City of Temples! 6/26/2014 11:19:35 PM Abodh Sharma JAMMU, June 26: With Shri Amaranth pilgrims starting to arrive in the city of temples in large numbers a day ahead of the official beginning of the yatra on Saturday, hotel accommodation for over 200 people would be vacant every day, yet unavailable to the wanting. Even as State High Court provided relief to some 18 hotels of the city after the State Pollution Control Board issued sealing notices to them for failure to install Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs), still 5-7 rooms in all these hotels remain sealed, making some hundred rooms unavailable to pilgrims at a time when there is heavy demand of hotel accommodation in view of Shri Amaranth Yatra and ongoing summer holidays. While the sealing of these rooms is likely to cause inconvenience to the pilgrims, it is pinching tightly the hoteliers who feel they deserved more time to abide by the directives of the SPCB, especially in the wake of peak tourist season. These 18 hotels of the city, which have more than 19 rooms have been affected by the SPCB directive that called upon them to install Sewerage Treatment Plants, failing which all their rooms beyond 19 would be sealed. Though the entire issue is subjudice, yet affected hoteliers have several issues in the implementation of the SPCB directions. "A STP is a fairly big plant that needs lot of space and finances, though we have high regard for the environmental norms that SPCB wants to be implemented, yet our problems needed to be taken into account," said the owner of a prominent hotel. "One STP units costs over five lakhs and in several hotels, there is a pressing constraint of space to install the plant," he added arguing the need to arm twist existing and old hotels to install the STPs. Meanwhile, certain hotel owners are also alleging discrimination on part of the SPCB in sealing the rooms. "Several hotels which have more than 19 rooms and have not installed STP have been spared from sealing and they are operating to their full potential, while we have been forced to operate at two-third of our intake in the middle of peak tourist season in Jammu," said another hotel owner pleading anonymity.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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