GIFT City has emerged as a global financial and technological hub...
On Friday Gujarat government exempted the Gujarat international finance tec-city area in Gandhi from prohibition.
“In GIFT City, these companies can “authorise” visitors with “temporary permits” to “drink in the presence of the permanent employees”.
The relaxation comes barely three weeks before the launch of the 10th three-day Vibrant Gujarat Summit, which is expected to see the opening of the offshore campus of Australia’s Deakin University in GIFT City.
GIFT City has emerged as a global financial and technological hub which is bustling with economic activities. An important decision has been taken on Friday to change the prohibition rules to allow ‘wine and dine’ facilities in the GIFT City area to provide a global business ecosystem to global investors, technical experts and national and international companies established there,” the state prohibition and excise department said in a statement.
Under the new policy, hotels, restaurants and clubs in the GIFT City area will be given permits for wine and dine facilities,” it said. While liquor can be consumed in these facilities, they will not be allowed to sell liquor bottles, it said.
Those officially working in GIFT City area and their official guests will be able to go to such hotels, restaurants and clubs for wine and dine facilities,” the statement said.
In April 2022, Singapore High Commissioner Simon Wong had told The Indian Express in an interview that GIFT City is “quite a ghost town” after working hours
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