Government has decided to increase the annual intake of the hotel management and food craft institutes and upgrade the syllabus and training standards in view of projected shortfall of over 35,000 trained manpower in the hospitality industry. Disclosing this to LHE members of the consultative committee of department of tourism, minister of tourism and culture Ananth Kumar said that a hospitality education grid comprising of national culinary institute, hotel management institute, institute of tourism and travel management was being set up at Noida. “The proposed institution will work as an advanced research and training centre for hospitality industry,” the minister said. He said keeping in view the economic policies of the government that all the hotel management institutes affiliated to National Council of Hotel Management had been advised for raising their own sources and moving towards self-sufficiency on revenue accounts. Besides the existing hotel management institute at Guwahati, the Centre had approved an institute at Shillong. Justice Sethi, writing the judgement for the bench, also said that Section 32A did not in any way affect the powers of the authorities to grant parole to the convict. He said that it is clear that parole did not amount to the suspension, remission or commutation of sentence, which could be withheld under the garb of Section 32A of the act. Justice Sethi said in the absence of right of suspending a sentence, the right of appeal conferred upon accused was termed to be a right of infructuous appeal.
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