Haryana ready with 7,300 hotel rooms for CWG

About 7,300 hotel rooms are ready in Haryana against its commitment of providing 6,700 hotel rooms for accomodation purposes during the coming Commonwealth Games.

''The Haryana government has delivered more than what was promised,'' said Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner Rajender Kataria, who is also Nodal Officer for Haryana districts falling in NCR region.

He said the number of hotel rooms in Haryana was likely to increase up to 7,500 by the time the games commenced.

As per a decision of the Central government, tax concession would be extended to those hotels, which would be ready by July 31. This concession would continue during the next five years.

The tax concession would be given only to one-starred to four-starred hotels.

Mr Kataria today held a meeting with the owners of hotels constructed or under construction in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rewari and Sonepat districts of Haryana and enquired about the problems being faced by them in completing work related to Commonwealth Games. He ordered the officers concerned to redress on priority basis the problems of the hotel owners.

He said full cooperation was being extended to the hotel owners in completing all kinds of formalities without any hassle at the earliest. All the officers of the departments concerned had been directed to clear hotel related files immediately. If any owner of the hotel faced any difficulty, he could directly meet him.