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A set of guidelines for multiplexes and cinema halls have been unveiled by the Telangana Civil Supplies Department on Sunday across the state to follow from August 1.

It stated that they cannot charge about the Minimum Retail Price (MRP) for food and drink items sold. If found selling water bottles, cool drinks and other food items above the Minimum Retail Price (MRP) the establishments will face heavy penalties and also imprisonment.

As per the new rules, the sale of food items that are sold loose in containers must be printed with weight, quantity, manufacturing date, expiry and MRP on them. The department has allowed the owners to use stickers until September 1, until existing stocks of containers are exhausted.

By Sowmya Sangam