SHILLONG: After a delay of more than 33 years, the construction of Crow Borough hotel is finally making progress and the project is likely to be completed next year.
Legislator, Sanbor Shullai, who is also the Chairman of the Meghalaya Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC), along officials from both the departments carried out a joint inspection of the project on Monday to take stock of the progress of work.
During the inspection, it was informed by the project in-charge that the work was in progress and the soft opening of the hotel would be done by July-August, 2020.
Altogether, the plan as of now is to build 101 rooms with parking facilities of around 150 vehicles.
A mock room is also made inside the under construction hotel which was inspected by the MLA.
It may be mentioned that the hotel has partnered with France-based Accor Hotel Group and Novotel, the internationally acclaimed brand from the group, will make its debut in the state capital. The hotel will be able to provide jobs to 150 people as informed by the project in-charge.
Shullai asked the project in-charge to employ locals as there are plenty of local youth who are now trained to work in the hotel industry and also to give opportunity to local contractors to execute the work so as to promote self-employment
Speaking to media persons after the inspection, Shullai said that this would be a 5 Star hotel and when the hotel would be completed, it would provide employment to many local youths
He said that tender for the hotel was floated in 1986 and due to various issues such as court case, the project was delayed.
The hotel was tipped to be Shillong’s first 5 Star hotel , adding it was supposed to comprise eight economy rooms, 58 standard rooms, 30 deluxe rooms, five suites, a 100-seat coffee shop, 80-seat specialty (Indian / multi-cuisine) restaurant, 50-seat bar, 35-seat lounge, discotheque, banquet hall, convention facilities with state-of-the-art seating and projection facilities, smaller meeting and committee rooms, guest amenities like beauty parlour, health club with fully equipped gym, steam, sauna and massage facilities.