Home Ministry Seeks Roll Back of TN Order Allowing Full Occupancy in Movie Theatres
State government are not permitted to dilute the Centre s COVID-19 guidelines, said home secretary Ajay Bhalla.
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New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked the Tamil Nadu government to roll back its decision to allow full occupancy in movie theatres, saying that state governments are not allowed to dilute the ministry’s COVID-19 guidelines.
In a communication sent to Tamil Nadu chief secretary K. Shanmugam, Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla said the January 4 order permitting full occupancy in theatres “amounts to a dilution” of the MHA’s December 28, 2020, order.
Eastern India Motion Picture Association appeals Mamata Banerjee to resume cinema shows with full occupancy ANI | Updated: Jan 06, 2021 13:18 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 6 (ANI): The Eastern India Motion Picture Association through an official letter appealed to the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to resume cinema theatres with 100 per cent occupancy.
Cinema halls in the state are currently running at 50 per cent of their occupancy in view of the coronavirus crisis in the country.
In the letter to the CM on Tuesday, the President of the association, Piya Sengupta stated that the current practice of film screenings is causing a huge financial crisis, to the cinema hall owners.
Theatre owners ask Mamata to lift cap on cinema hall occupancy Move follows Tamil Nadu government’s decision of scrapping regulation
Single-screen theatre owners in Bengal wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urging her to allow full occupancy, while citing huge losses in business and “no instance of the spread of Covid-19 through cinema halls”.
In the letter shot off to Mamata on Tuesday evening, said that they have suffered huge losses while complying with the rule of 50 per cent occupancy in cinemas since the reopening of the establishments in the third week of October.
“There has been no report on the spread of the pandemic by way of screening of films in cinema halls in and around the country since the time the halls reopened,” the letter signed by Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA) president Piya Sengupta read.