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Stating that the COVID-19 pandemic had severely affected over three lakh families in Pune who were dependent on the hospitality and health sectors, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Siddharth Shirole has urged Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to consider waiving property taxes and fixed electricity charges for businesses like hotels, restaurants, gyms and amusement parks.
Mr. Shirole has appealed to the Maharashtra government to provide relief to these establishments along the lines of the help recently announced by the Gujarat government.
“The hospitality and fitness industries have been hit hardest by the pandemic. Continuous lockdowns have meant that these establishments have barely been open for business in the last 15 months. Hotels, resorts, restaurants, amusement parks, gyms and fitness centres are capital-intensive businesses and have high monthly expenditure in terms of rent, property taxes, licence fees and fixed charges for commercial electricity meters,” the BJP MLA from Shivajinagar said in a letter to Mr. Thackeray on Wednesday.