New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday launched a single-window online system for licensing of eating and lodging houses in New Delhi.
Union MoS for Home Affairs launches unified portal for licensing of restaurants and lodges in Delhi This unified portal aims at simplifying and rationalizing regulatory process (registration and inspection), infusion of transparency and avoid procedural delays in getting statutory clearances from various authorities and real-time received of the application by all agencies simultaneously. Addressing the gathering on this occasion, Reddy said, "This unique initiative is a step in the direction to achieve PM Modi's vision to establish a corruption-free economy by bringing in the welfare-oriented economic reforms."
The Minister said that India has progressively improved its ease of doing business ranking and the government is encouraging entrepreneurs to start up new businesses. The food and beverages is a big sector and by 2021, it would be having over 2 per cent contribution in India's GDP.
Reddy further said the single unified portal would be an integrated, transparent and seamless system for providing licences on a time-bound manner. Such a people-friendly system would prevent corruption and compliance with rules and regulations by all stakeholders. With the launch of this portal, now the applicant can know the status of his application at all the stages of the approval process. The applicant will get notification of any deficiency in his application in the portal itself through email and message in his registered mobile number. This portal will also facilitate easy monitoring by concerned authorities.
In NCT of Delhi, a number of licences are required for running eating houses/lodging houses. This necessitated the applicants to procure four basic clearances separately - municipal, fire, police and pollution control committee - making the entire process cumbersome, hassle prone and time taking.
But with the launch of this single unified portal, various concerned agencies can co-ordinate their respective inspection and approval process and provide the public with a single point of hassle-free contact.
The website delehlhlic.mha.gov.in is jointly developed by the National Informatics Centre and Delhi Police.
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