Jun 22, 2013

Five hotels in city, 13 in district closed

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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