ADDRESS OF HON’BLE LT. GOVERNOR ON THE OCCASION OF LAUNCHING OF MODIFIED UNIFIED PORTAL FOR LICENSING OF EATING, LODGING AND BOARDING ESTABLISHMENTS IN DELHI

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ADDRESS OF HON’BLE LT. GOVERNOR ON THE OCCASION OF LAUNCHING OF MODIFIED UNIFIED PORTAL FOR LICENSING OF EATING, LODGING AND BOARDING ESTABLISHMENTS IN DELHI

  1. I am happy to be present amidst you on this occasion.  It is indeed a matter of satisfaction that entrepreneurs and businessmen and start-ups in the hospitality sector will now be able to operate under a much simplified, minimal and enabling licensing regime, in the National Capital.
  2. Right after taking over as Lt. Governor, I have been insisting upon providing impetus to the dictum of “Ease of Doing Business”, as enunciated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi.  It is my opinion that enabling the hospitality sector could prove to be the first step in the direction of a robust ‘Night Time Economy’ in Delhi.  Since the existing license regime in the city was found to be restrictive in terms of the requirements and demands of the entrepreneurs and people, a High Level Committee under the Chief Secretary, comprising top officers from all stakeholder departments was constituted to ease the same. 
  3. I am happy that the Committee was able to complete its task in record time and the result is there for all of us to see, in the shape of this “Modified Unified Portal for Licensing of Eating & Lodging / Boarding Establishments”, launched today. 
  4. We also experimented with extending the timings for operations by eateries and restaurants in the city and clubs run by the DDA, and the results were more than encouraging.Similarly, alfresco and dinning on terraces were allowed.  Residents of the city, who were going to establishments in the neighbouring hubs of NCR, got an option to patronise establishments in Delhi itself. 
  5. With the modified portal launched today, the entire process of granting and renewal of licenses has been made completely online and faceless.  Establishments in the hospitality sector will now be able to get their licenses or renew them by submitting a much shorter, simpler and user-friendly Common Application Form (CAF) on the portal. This CAF will be applicable for all 05 Licensing Bodies that include, Delhi Police, MCD, NDMC, DPCC and Delhi Fire Service. 
  6. In the new CAF, 140 fields have been removed and uploading of 28 documents has been done away with.  Instead of 05 affidavits that was supposed to be submitted earlier, the applicants will now have to submit a Single Common Undertaking for all 05 agencies.
  7. The requirement of documents for renewal of licenses has been minimized and no fresh documents, barring those whose validity has expired, will be required.  The applicants will have to submit just a common undertaking. 
  8. Similarly, the validity of Licenses / NOCs has been made coterminous for all agencies and has been extended to 03 years.  Earlier, the validity varied from 01 to 05 years for different agencies, and that any time, an applicant had to run around for getting these renewed in a haphazard manner. 
  9. To make the system transparent and accountable, timelines for grant or renewal have been fixed for all agencies and responsibility will be fixed in case of delays. 
  10. In any case, the entire process of granting or renewing Licenses will have to be completed within 49 days from the receipt of the application.  In case, the License is not granted or renewed within 49 days, it will be deemed to have been issued automatically. 
  11. You will be happy to know that number of documents required for grant of fresh License has been reduced from 52 to 24.  In case of renewal, while 25 documents were required earlier, none will be required now.
  12. All payments will be made online and applicants will be able to download License certificates, online.
  13. Dear Friends, you will be happy to know that we are also working on easing and liberalizing the Licensing norms for amusement segment of the hospitality industry.  I want to assure you that within a month, we will be able to formulate and notify far more enabling norms with regards to discotheques, musicals and entertainment for the entrepreneurs and start-ups of this segment. 
  14.  hope that the simplifying and enabling Licensing regime launched today through this unified portal will go a long way in promoting economic activity, as indeed fostering the much desired vibrant ‘Night Time Economy’ in the Capital City of India, as it is in, various other National and International cities.

  15. Towards the end, I would like to congratulate all officers, who made this happen in record time. 

Jai Hind !

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