MOST IMPORTANT AND URGENT ATTENTION FOR MEMBERS

19th January 2020,

To All Members,

Sub: Members inputs needed for Requesting the Government to help/ save Inbound Tour Operators

 Dear Friends,     

As you are aware, for last 9 months, we have been running from pillar to post to get some relief and help from the Ministry of Finance/Ministry of Commerce for which we approached PMO, Finance Minister, Commerce Minister, DGFT, Niti Aayog, Reserve Bank of India, Ministry of MSME, SEPC through Ministry of Tourism, Chambers of Commerce, FAITH and directly. We personally met Commerce Minister, Tourism Minister, CEO Niti Aayog, Senior Officials in the Ministry of Commerce, Directorate General of Foreign Trade and others but our voice has not been heard in the corridors of power.

However, our efforts remained continued tirelessly. We want to give another try / effort to convince the Government to get some relief for the members before the budget is announced on 1st February 2021.

We are going to approach Ministry of Finance once again with the realistic data of our members’ present conditions due to financial crisis for which we need the following information from each member: -

1.         Name of your company with city

2.         Present financial liquidation status of your company - poor/ bad/ negative

3.         No. of employees Pre Covid-19

4.         No of employees presently held and put on furlough/sabbatical leave

5.         How long you are going to survive under present situation

6.         What other remedial actions you have taken for survival till now e.g.

  • Sold your property
  • Sold your tourist vehicles
  • Vacated your rented property
  • Loan and EMI liability you have.
  • Any other

The above information should be sent to the IATO office definitely by Thursday the 21st January 2021 on email ids contact@iato.in and iato.circulars@gmail.com . We want to submit our request with the Ministry of Finance with current data by Friday 22nd January, 2021

This initiative is possible with your support and cooperation only as we want to highlight the pathetic condition of our Industry to the government.

Please treat this as most urgent and important. We want maximum members to submit this information.

Note:- All information you can give even if you do not have the exact figures and this information will remain confidential.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pronab Sarkar

President