Hyderabad’s wedding halls get extension for night-time events

Marriage halls association demand regulation for night-time events under strict adherence to SOPs

HYDERABAD:

Wedding halls in Hyderabad have been given an additional 11 days to organise night-time events until 10pm, as Hyderabad commissioner Muhammad Abbass Baloch withdrew the earlier notification that only permitted day-time events until 3:30pm from Tuesday onwards.

Baloch, who was approached by a delegation of the marriage halls association, revoked the earlier decision and extended the deadline for implementation of the restriction until December 13.

In his letters to the Hyderabad DIG, SSP and deputy commissioner, he stated that the extension was being granted in view of the interest of those who had already booked wedding halls for events.

However, the All-Hyderabad Marriage Halls and Lawns Owners Association held a sit-in protest outside the Shahbaz Building, the regional bureaucracy's headquarters in Hyderabad, on Wednesday and rejected the 11-day extension.

They demanded that the regulations for night-time events under strict adherence to standard operating procedures, as being practiced in Karachi, should be applied in Hyderabad as well.

The association ended the sit-in after over three hours and held negotiations with DC Fuad Ghaffar Soomro.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 3^rd, 2020.