NEW DELHI: After hospitality industry association Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India's appeal, a committee of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has written to the Delhi government to revoke the order asking five major hotels in the city to be converted into makeshift hospitals for covid-19 patients.
In a letter dated 3 June, the national tourism committee of CII expressed surprise as the identified hotels received no intimation notice, or neither any inspection was carried out before the issuance of the order.
The committee appealed to reconsider this decision as hotels are neither designed or equipped to deal with cases of this nature where ailing patients would need careful supervision in a sanitized