AHMEDABAD: Even though food licenses have been made mandatory for all eateries as per the Food Safety Act, Gandhinagar is the only municipal corporation that allows eateries to function in residential areas without these licenses. Interestingly, till date there has not been any effort in the capital city to monitor food licences in such areas.
What the eateries would show you is the copy of the commercial tax permits that have been issued to them. "We do not have a food laboratory of our own. The food and drugs laboratory of the state is where any food that has questionable quality is sent for tests. The municipal corporation is yet to get its own food safety laboratory," says a senior official at GMC
The official adds, "A representation from Gandhinagar Snack vendors association was accepted by the GMC and soon procedures to issue licenses may be taken up."
Gandhinagar was declared a municipal corporation on March 2010 and got its first elected municipal corporation council in April 2011 and since then it has a meager budget. While essential civic services like drainage, water supply and roads are still handled by the notified authority—which functions under the roads and building department, the GMC just handled the sanitary department.
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