Employees resent putting up travelers for quarantine at Centaur hotel
We have 40 rooms already booked for guests
Srinagar: Centaur hotel employees and the guests who are already staying in the hotel since long that include three deputy inspectors’ general (DIGs) of police, Saturday staged a massive protest against the Srinagar administration’s decision of lodging passengers at the hotel “for quarantine.”
A group of employees said that Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary and Station House Officer (SHO) Nishat police station visited the hotel today and asked the General Manager of the hotel, Syed Shafat to keep rooms available for the lodgment of passengers who need to be quarantined and screened for Covid-19.
“This triggered a storm in the hotel as GM directly refused to provide accommodation for the travellers given the fact that out of 60 rooms, they already have 40 rooms booked for Accountant General (AG) and his staff, besides Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India employees and three DIGs, who have been staying in the hotel since long,” an employee of the hotel said, wishing not to be named.
He said that at present protest is going on against the administration’s decision in which all the hotel employees and the guests too have joined.
“Since there is a common dining hall and a gallery, the transmission of virus if found among the travellers, can spread like bush fire. We are opposing the administration’s decision,” said another employee, who was part of the protest. (KNO)
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