Kathua, Sept 12: Exposing the lives of the people to various health hazards, the vendors in Lakhanpur are selling eatables in close proximity to Sulabh toilet complex thereby exposing the tall claims of Lakhanpur Municipal Committee (LMC) of maintaining hygiene of high standards in the Lakhanpur which is the gate way of Jammu and Kashmir.
Early Times observed that most of the reharies are selling eatables just in front of the Sulabh Toilet under unhygienic conditions and putting the health of people who are having food especially the pilgrims and tourists visiting J&K, Vaishno Devi shrine to risk.
Sulabh Toilet near these reharies emanates foul smell all the time polluting air and flies sitting on the food items make them unhygienic, they said further adding that even these vendors use water from Sulabh Toilet for preparing food posing threat to the health of consumers. Due to total negligence of Lakhanpur Municipal Committee these reharies are forced to sell eatables under such unhygienic conditions has committee has failed to provide better place to these licensed reharis, sources claimed.
"It is the duty of Municipal Committee to provide a better place or spot to sell eatables for these vendors and the unhygienic conditions is not only a biggest threat to the public health but also a major question over the insensitivity of the Committees which has equal share in playing role to put the life of consumers in risk said by a tourists Suresh Yadav, Meenakshi, Ruchi, Vinay Patnaik, Deepak Batnagar and Rtd Capt Suraj Chauhan.
They said there is complete violation of norms of selling eatables by the vendors most of the vendors have not used to cover the eatables with required covered to protect from dust pollution and flies, all the material are lying in open and flies are sitting on the eatables which is surely leading to health hazardous.
Food safety officer (FSO) Subash Raina admitted the prevailing of unhygienic conditions over the eatables which are being sold in Lkhanpur on reharies and chances of food poisoning is full.
When contacted Tehsildar Kathua Jatinder Mishra admitted that reharies are functioning in unhygienic conditions and even the rates of their products are also different for different people due to whom the rates which are being charged from the consumers are not fair which should also be a matter of investigation and the violation of market rule.
While the Executive office Lkhanpur Municipal Committee has also signing the songs in similar as sung by Tehsildar and Food safety officer and told that reharies will be shifted to other safe place.
Early Times observed that most of the reharies are selling eatables just in front of the Sulabh Toilet under unhygienic conditions and putting the health of people who are having food especially the pilgrims and tourists visiting J&K, Vaishno Devi shrine to risk.
Sulabh Toilet near these reharies emanates foul smell all the time polluting air and flies sitting on the food items make them unhygienic, they said further adding that even these vendors use water from Sulabh Toilet for preparing food posing threat to the health of consumers. Due to total negligence of Lakhanpur Municipal Committee these reharies are forced to sell eatables under such unhygienic conditions has committee has failed to provide better place to these licensed reharis, sources claimed.
"It is the duty of Municipal Committee to provide a better place or spot to sell eatables for these vendors and the unhygienic conditions is not only a biggest threat to the public health but also a major question over the insensitivity of the Committees which has equal share in playing role to put the life of consumers in risk said by a tourists Suresh Yadav, Meenakshi, Ruchi, Vinay Patnaik, Deepak Batnagar and Rtd Capt Suraj Chauhan.
They said there is complete violation of norms of selling eatables by the vendors most of the vendors have not used to cover the eatables with required covered to protect from dust pollution and flies, all the material are lying in open and flies are sitting on the eatables which is surely leading to health hazardous.
Food safety officer (FSO) Subash Raina admitted the prevailing of unhygienic conditions over the eatables which are being sold in Lkhanpur on reharies and chances of food poisoning is full.
When contacted Tehsildar Kathua Jatinder Mishra admitted that reharies are functioning in unhygienic conditions and even the rates of their products are also different for different people due to whom the rates which are being charged from the consumers are not fair which should also be a matter of investigation and the violation of market rule.
While the Executive office Lkhanpur Municipal Committee has also signing the songs in similar as sung by Tehsildar and Food safety officer and told that reharies will be shifted to other safe place.
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