Mangaluru: Ocean Pearl Hotels ready to host guest with all safety, precautionary measures
Group's VP, BN Girish says customer safety top-priority
Mangaluru: The Ocean Pearl Group of Hotels has resumed its hospitality services after a three-month hiatus due to the nation-wide lockdown to cap the spread of Coronavirus. According to a press release issued by the hotel, the group has reopened all its entities with all the safety and precautionary measures as directed by the WHO and other authorities.
The operations at the hotels owned by the groups resumed on June 8, after the State Government allowed the opening of hotels. Ocean Pearl has two hotels in Mangaluru one each at Navbharat Circle and Bejai in the city.
The company in the press release added that all measures have been taken to ensure and reassure the safety of their guests and the staff members.
The release also asserted that booking with the Ocean Pearl Hotels for a stay was completely safe with a safe check-in and check-out policy. In a video released along with the press statement, visuals of the measures taken at the hotel premises to ensure the safety of the guests and staff were shown elaborately.
“In light of the impact and changes caused by the novel COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we want to ensure and reassure you that we are focused round-the-clock on the health and safety of all our guests, residents and employees, without compromising the high standards and quality of your experience, that you have come to know, love and expect in your every stay with us.
“Considering the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, The Ocean Pearl Group is taking standards for hygiene and cleanliness very seriously, as well as implementing additional steps to ensure the safety of our guests and staff members” the press statement by Group’s Vice President BN Girish added.
“The Ocean Pearl Group has set-up procedures to follow the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and local health authorities. We are adopting all the published standard recommendations and following the authority’s regulations to reduce exposure to and transmission of a range of illnesses, which include hand and respiratory hygiene and safe food practices.
“All our teams and staff members are adhering to the latest guidance and hygiene protocols, we assure you that they are well trained to handle situations that may occur at any of our hotels and we have confidence in their abilities” it further added.
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Chhattisgarh coal levy scam: Rs 4 crore assets of suspended IAS officer attached
Raipur (PTI): The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has attached properties of Rs 4 crore belonging to suspended IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, an accused in a coal levy scam, for allegedly amassing assets beyond his known sources of income, officials said.
The EOW had registered a disproportionate assets case against Vishnoi in July 2024, an official release said on Saturday.
During the investigation, the agency identified nine immovable properties, valued at around Rs 4 crore, allegedly acquired through illicit means in the names of Vishnoi’s family members and associated firms, it said.
“An application seeking attachment of these properties was filed before the Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act in Raipur. Following a hearing on April 17, the court ordered attachment of all such properties,” the statement said.
Accordingly, the Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing attached the properties. The attached properties cannot be sold or transferred, it said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier provisionally attached five immovable properties linked to Vishnoi in connection with the coal levy scam, it added.
Proceedings are also underway in cases involving other public servants, including action taken in September last year against properties linked to Saumya Chaurasia, who was deputy secretary in the chief minister’s office during the Congress government, the statement said.
Vishnoi, a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was first arrested in 2022 by the ED in connection with the alleged coal levy scam. He was among several accused who were granted bail last year by the Supreme Court.
The case refers to an alleged Rs 540 crore racket between July 2020 and June 2022, when an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen for every tonne of coal transported in the state.
