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Updated On: 28 September, 2009 07:11 AM IST | | Urvashi Seth
With Mumbai already reeling under 15 per cent water cut, hotel body says tourism ministry's directive permitting 3 and 4-star hotels to have swimming pools will spell doom for city in days to come
With Mumbai already reeling under 15 per cent water cut, hotel body says tourism ministry's directive permitting 3 and 4-star hotels to have swimming pools will spell doom for city in days to come
The Hotel and Restaurant Association Western India (HRA-WI) says the Tourism Ministry's latest directive that allows three and four-star hotels to have swimming pools is inappropriate in view of the water shortage in the city.
Not only does the association want the ministry to call back the directive, which makes pools in three and four star hotels a 'desirable option', it also wants pools in five-stars to be declared a 'desirable option' and not a 'mandatory' one as it is now.
The protest follows the BMC's refusal to supply water to swimming pools in hotels due to poor rainfall. "These are times when ways and means are being developed to save natural resources.
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It is absurd on the part of the ministry to put pools in three and four-star hotels under the desirable option," said S P Jain, president, HRA-WI.
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