Bhayandar : Stung by an alarming rise in the hawker population lined on its streets, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) authorities to stop registering illegally operating roadside food vendors.
The FSSAI, in an attempt to ensure that eatables being sold are safe and unadulterated, has mandated all type of Food Business Operators (FBO) including roadside food vendors to obtain licenses or registration. Since its inception in 2011, FSSAI’s Food Safety and Standards Act, which replaced the age old Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, has registered nearly 4,500 roadside eateries in the twin-city. As per rules, food businesses with an annual turnover below Rs 12 lakh will have to get themselves registered while those with a turnover of Rs 12 lakh and more will have to obtain a license. Fee for one-year registration is Rs 100 while that for license ranges from Rs 2,000 to Rs 7,500.
“Already armed with judicial orders pertaining to the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act – 2014, scores of fly-by-night operators are using the FSSAI registrations as a tool to establish themselves as genuine and legitimate hawkers, thus thwarting our attempts to evict them, especially from designated no hawker zones,” said an MBMC officer.
To address the issue the MBMC has asked the FSSAI not to issue licenses or registration to illegally operating hawkers.
According to the Street Vendors Act, 2.5% of the city’s population will be eligible to be vendors.
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