Who cares even if it is unhygienic?

It is peak of summer season and varieties of drinks are in huge demand especially those made by roadside vendors in the State capital. Unfortunately, it seems neither the officials nor the street cool drink vendors are interested in ensuring hygiene in this natural drinks.
Explaining Food department’s hurdles, Director-in-Chief of Food TP Barnwal told The Pioneer, “There are norms to check these street fruit drink vendors but as of now we have not planned anything. We are facing manpower crunch as food safety officers. Keeping this in mind though we have deployed some staffs but their training is not yet completed.
The training for Ranchi and Hazaribagh blocks has been done. On May 15, it is scheduled in Deoghar and thereafter in Jamshedpur. On May 20 it will be held at Palamau. Once this block level training concludes, we will hold a large level meeting in the state capital and decide about this inspection. The registration of all such stall owners is mandatory. This is to be ascertained by our food safety officers.”
On the other side, Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) Public Relations Officer Naresh Kumar Sinha said, “We have not yet begun the licencing of street side juice stalls but we will start it within one month. Registering such stalls is our responsibility but analysing the quality of water and other food products is not our responsibility.”
Shockingly when The Pioneer interacted with few of the fruit juice vendors, none were aware about roadside stall licensing despite indulged in this business since a long time. “I have heard about street vendor licence in Kolkata but is it applicable in our city?”, asked panipuri seller Ramesh Gupta of Kutchery road.
Adding more to the shock, when asked that whether these officials wash the juice glasses after every customer has his sip of drink they said, “Iss mehngai ke zamane mei kaise har baar detergent powder se dhoyenge! Humlog toh bas subah aur sham dho lete hain ye gilas (In this sky high price era, we are unable to wash the glasses frequently.
We just wash the glasses twice, once in the morning and in evening).”
Be it a mango or gram flour (sattu) or wood apple (bel) or lemon juice or panipuri vendor, none use clean waters. “We use water of our locality’s supply tap water or well,” said Horin Mohanty of Radium road, Prince Kumar near Civil Court, Babulal of Sarjana Chowk. All
three are selling fruit juice for more than five years with this supply water. Babulal
confidently said, “This water is undoubtedly clean.
None of my customers have complained of any sickness yet.”