With the beginning of the Ramzan season, the Corporation is planning to intensify their raids and inspections on hotels and restaurants in the city.
A majority of the floating population and bachelors depend mainly on restaurants in the city to break the day-long fast. And the civic body is keen on making sure that the busy hours are not exploited by the hoteliers.
It was last week that the health wing officials of the Corporation launched raids on restaurants and eateries in the city. It also issued orders to close down the restaurants found to be functioning in unhygienic conditions.
Though the massive raids conducted by the Corporation invited strong protests from the Hotel and Restaurants Association, the authorities are of the opinion that they would go ahead with inspections to make sure that only healthy food is served by the hotels.
“The Kerala Hotels and Restaurants Association has come up with a new argument that the municipalties and Corporations are not the authorised bodies to conduct the raids.
They are citing the Food Safety Act to substantiate their argument. But we are conducting raids under the clause included in the Kerala Municipal Act. As per the clause, any officer appointed by the Corporation secretary can conduct the raids to ensure that quality food is supplied to the public,” said Corporation health standing committee chairman T K Ashraf.
Ashraf stated that in a majority of cases where the closure notice was issued to hotels, the problem was related to hygiene.
“The preparation of food under hygienic conditions is equally important as the quality of the materials used for cooking. A majority of hotels that were served with closure notice were unhygienic and stinking. In some hotels, the drainage system was faulty and food was kept uncovered in the kitchen while in some other hotels the gutter and the sink were overflowing with dirty water. We cannot allow this,” he said.
Iftar squads
Ashraf further added that considering that public in-flow will be high in these hotels during the evenings during Ramzan, the Corporation will entrust a special squad to conduct raids after 7 pm in the evening.
A majority of the floating population and bachelors depend mainly on restaurants in the city to break the day-long fast. And the civic body is keen on making sure that the busy hours are not exploited by the hoteliers.
It was last week that the health wing officials of the Corporation launched raids on restaurants and eateries in the city. It also issued orders to close down the restaurants found to be functioning in unhygienic conditions.
Though the massive raids conducted by the Corporation invited strong protests from the Hotel and Restaurants Association, the authorities are of the opinion that they would go ahead with inspections to make sure that only healthy food is served by the hotels.
“The Kerala Hotels and Restaurants Association has come up with a new argument that the municipalties and Corporations are not the authorised bodies to conduct the raids.
They are citing the Food Safety Act to substantiate their argument. But we are conducting raids under the clause included in the Kerala Municipal Act. As per the clause, any officer appointed by the Corporation secretary can conduct the raids to ensure that quality food is supplied to the public,” said Corporation health standing committee chairman T K Ashraf.
Ashraf stated that in a majority of cases where the closure notice was issued to hotels, the problem was related to hygiene.
“The preparation of food under hygienic conditions is equally important as the quality of the materials used for cooking. A majority of hotels that were served with closure notice were unhygienic and stinking. In some hotels, the drainage system was faulty and food was kept uncovered in the kitchen while in some other hotels the gutter and the sink were overflowing with dirty water. We cannot allow this,” he said.
Iftar squads
Ashraf further added that considering that public in-flow will be high in these hotels during the evenings during Ramzan, the Corporation will entrust a special squad to conduct raids after 7 pm in the evening.
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