kolkata the food and beverage industry will appeal to the government to allow restaurants to close late during durga puja at present restaurants have to shut shop at 1030pmthough the state government has relaxed the strict night time restrictions between 11pm and 5am for 10 days panchami to lakshmi puja it is applicable only for the movement of people and goodswe are drafting a letter to the government requesting that the relaxation be extended to the industry that has been hit hard by covid this is the time of the year when we all look forward to doing good business and recovering some of the lost revenue if the government gives its nod we will then approach the excise department for late closure licence hotel restaurant association of eastern india hraei president sudesh poddar said advt restaurateur nitin kothari says if the opportunity arises he will pick up the late closure licence for as many days as possible earlier we used to take late closures for two or three days during the puja but now if i get it for seven days i will take it with no pandal hopping going to the restaurant is the only option for people and we are confident of getting walkins as late as 1230am i hope restaurants are able to operate till 2am like other years he saidlast year too restaurants were allowed to do business till late during durga puja pranav singh the honorary secretaery of hraei pointed out the covid situation now is a lot better than it was a year ago the biggest differnce is the vaccination that has happened in any case restaurants are operating with covid regulations in mind and will continue to do so he said adding that thermal checks and sanitization had become standard measures at all restaurants by subhro niyogi tnn published on oct 4 2021 at 0841 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app restaurants food vaccination covid hraei revenue excise department homenewsfood beverage industry in west bengal plea for late closure of restaurants during durga pujas