Nursing home owners seek changes in notification

quot;The Administration should either give them the liberty to choose a site anywhere in the city and buy it on their own or lower the rates,quot; he said, adding that the Nursing Home Association would take up the matter with the authorities.

Thirty-one nursing homes in residential areas are associated with the association and six would form the displaced category as and when the authorities start with the regularisation process, the notification for which was released recently.

However, the Nursing home owners8217; body has generally hailed the UT Administration8217;s decision to pursue the regularisation of their establishments, running for long in residential areas. It pointed out that the annual maintenance rate Rs 20,000 per year being fixed for each nursing home in residential area was unjust. quot;We would already be paying the electricity and water bills, apart from charges for conversion of building rooms in nursing home. Why burden us with separate maintenance bill on a yearly basis?quot; they question.