Hyderabad sources reported an official said that there is no proposal as of now to issue orders on allowing outside food into multiplexes and the Telangana Government was monitoring the outcome of Maharashtra's decision in this regard. Meanwhile Arvind Kumar Telangana, principal secretary municipal administration, said the priority is to see that consumers are not charged over and about the MRP in multiplexes and movie theatres.
He told "As of now there is no proposal to issues orders to multiplexes to allow outside food, but we will closely observe the outcome of Maharashtra model. After that we will examine it and we will have to examine the issue from all perspectives before taking a decision”.
Media reports stated that Maharashtra minister
Ravindra Chavan recently said multiplexes and malls in the state have been
directed to allow outside food on their premises. Moreover when replying to a
query, Arvind Kumar said multiplexes is well within their limits to restrict
outside food they are private properties.
