PUNE: The Pune Paan Association will initiate a drive to ensure that an estimated 30,000 paanwallahs in the city are issued licenses from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India ( FSSAI), the association's leadership said here on Friday.
The association had called for a strike during the day in protest against the state government's decision to ban flavoured tobacco products.
"We met officials of the office of the state's Food Safety Commission and explained the plight of the paanwallahs. They told us that they could not take up our case strongly, because only about 150 vendors were registered with them," Hemang Shah, secretary of the association, said in a news conference here.
Shah said that there were an estimated 30,000 paanwallahs in the city and the association will start a drive to ensure that they are all licensed. They will also be trained in hygiene, he added.
Claiming that the adverse affects of flavoured tobacco are negligible as compared to chewing tobacco, Shah said that the ban was arbitrary.
The association had called for a strike during the day in protest against the state government's decision to ban flavoured tobacco products.
"We met officials of the office of the state's Food Safety Commission and explained the plight of the paanwallahs. They told us that they could not take up our case strongly, because only about 150 vendors were registered with them," Hemang Shah, secretary of the association, said in a news conference here.
Shah said that there were an estimated 30,000 paanwallahs in the city and the association will start a drive to ensure that they are all licensed. They will also be trained in hygiene, he added.
Claiming that the adverse affects of flavoured tobacco are negligible as compared to chewing tobacco, Shah said that the ban was arbitrary.
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