NEW DELHI: Lieutenant guv V K Saxena released a merged online website on Tuesday for eating, lodging and boarding establishments in the city to obtain licences within 49 days.

The single window portal will assist entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and startups in the hospitality sector, who will now need just fill a common application form - relevant for all the five licensing bodies in the capital - to obtain a new licence or renew one.Addressing a gathering of restaurateurs, hoteliers, police and government authorities on Tuesday, Saxena said that having understood the hospitality market needed main assistance, he had actually decided to speak with all stakeholders and exercise a way to make it simpler for services to operate.

He stated that his earlier discussions had familiarized him with the truth that numerous departments associated with the industry were still working under guidelines framed in 1980 and consequently, the hotels and restaurants were struggling.In the new form, the 140 fields required to be filled have actually been gotten rid of.

The number of files required for the grant of fresh licence has been minimized from 52 to 24.

For renewals, none will be needed now when 25 documents were essential previously.

Rather of five affidavits mandatory prior to now, applicants will just have to submit a single common undertaking to the 5 licensing bodies - Delhi Police, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Council, Delhi Pollution Control Committee and Delhi Fire Service.

Similarly, the validity of licences and no-objection certificates has actually been made coterminous for all companies and has actually been extended to three years.

Earlier, the validity differed from one to five years for different agencies and the applicant needed to run around for getting these renewed in a haphazard manner, stated the LG.

All payments can be made online and the licence certificates can be downloaded.Importantly, the timelines for grant or renewal of licence has actually been fixed for all firms.

The entire procedure of granting or renewing licences will need to be completed within 49 days from the invoice of the application.

In case, the licence is not approved or renewed within 49 days, it will be deemed to have actually been issued immediately.

The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) welcomed the statements.

Association president and restaurateur Kabir Suri stated measures such as obligatory completion of the licensing process within 49 days, lowering a multiplicity of affidavits and 3 years validity of health and fire licences were all really favorable actions.

Sandeep Anand Goyle, restaurateur and handling committee member, NRAI, termed the steps as a dream become a reality for the market if executed in the right spirit by all the departments worried.

He stated restaurateurs experienced harassment and problems in setting up and running outlets, and these steps would help improve investment in the sector.Both Suri and Goyle, nevertheless, stressed that the concern of heritage structures in old Delhi, CP and Khan Market still needed information.

They collared that the department concerned could send the application file back for information and any failure to offer satisfying responses would nullify the application.

They pointed out such old homes did not have sanction plans and they might only produce website strategies from before the application of existing policies.

Documents such as evidence of ownership asked for by the portal would be tough to arrange because of multiple ownerships and non-availability of documents.Restaurateur Manpreet Singh, member, managing committee, NRAI, said authorities need to accept the defenses approved under Delhi Rent Control Act and accept documents such as lease invoices allowable under that Act, no-objection certificates from landlords.Nightclub owners are eased that hotels will have permission to run bars round the clock but wish to wait for the amusement policy too to be announced for more clearness.

The LG revealed that the policy was being exercised and would be declared soon.

Many hotels invited the choices as the requirement of the hour and hoped that with such unwinded standards, they would have the ability to use a really worldwide experience to their guest.Saxena said that ideas from the market would be routinely solicited to relieve all concerns.

Lauding the efforts of Delhi Police in making it possible for these modifications, the LG stated the cops were dedicated to guaranteeing a safe night-out experience and the dining establishments and bars should reciprocate by strictly following all rules.At the meeting, Delhi Police commissioner Sanjay Arora assured that cops would work with every department to assist in faster licensing.

When inquired about the pending licences, he told restaurateurs that the cause of the delays was the applicants not troubling to respond to questions raised by police.While MCD commissioner Gyanesh Bharti described the online website as a benchmark for other states to replicate, restaurateur Rahul Singh stated in the year of Indias G20 presidency, Delhi might have a buzzing food and night life.