Five hotels in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation limits
were shut down by Food Safety officials on Friday. Thirteen others were
ordered to be closed down in Nayyattinkara, Nedumangad and Attingal
areas following inspection.
District Food Safety
Officer D. Sivakumar said the Food Safety Commissioner had instructed
the officials to inspect the conditions in hotels during monsoon, when
there was a high possibility of waste water stagnation and prevalence of
mosquitoes and flies due to improper disposal of waste.
Inspection
The
inspections, carried out by five squads, at 67 eateries in the four
regions found 18 hotels guilty of serious violation of the 30-point
regulations for hygiene stipulated by the Food Safety Department. Their
licence was suspended and orders were issued for immediate shutdown of
operations.
These included five hotels in the
Corporation limits while the rest were spread across Neyyattinkara,
Nedumangadu and Attingal. In all, 59 hotels were served improvement
notice, while fines were slapped on 11, the total fines amounting to
Rs.76,000.
The hotels that were ordered to be closed
down were Hotel Thaneem, Murinjapalam; Hotel Surya, Medical College
Junction; Hotel New Mubarak, Sreekariyam; Cochin Family Restaurant,
Murinjapalam; Vasantham Hotel, Medical College; Arathy Hotel,
Pazhakutti; Kumar Hotel, Vattappara; Rajeev Fast Food, Karakulam; Hotel
Rafi, Balaramapuram; Hotel Jayakrishna, Neyyattinkara; Unni’s Hotel,
Neyyattinkara; Pranavam Hotel, Neyyattinkara; Thampy’s Hotel,
Neyyattinkara; Hotel Fayaz, Kallambalam; Hotel Punartham, Kallambalam;
Hotel Venuraj, Attingal; Hotel Al-Raj, Attingal; and the CSI Medical
Mission Hospital canteen, Kazhakuttom.
The 11 hotels
on which fines were imposed were Hotel Thaneem, Murinjapalam; Hotel New
Mubarak, Sreekariyam; Food Palace, Ulloor; Aviram Bakery, Sreekariyam;
Indian Coffee House, Medical College; Hotel Rafi, Balaramapuram; Vismaya
Hotel, Neyyattinkara; Hotel Indradhanus, Korani; Arathy Hotel,
Pazhakutti; K.G. Bakers, Varkala; and Thozhilali Hotel, Pazhakutti.
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