Jharkhand to aware street food vendors on health & hygiene

RANCHI: C P Singh, Urban Development Minister of Jharkhand, announced that the urban development department will launch a special drive to train street food vendors in all 44 urban local bodies(ULBs) across the state to ensure offerings in their menu are safe and hygienic.

The government is also planning to register all street vendors. The urban development department will soon launch a drive to train food vendors on the importance of maintaining hygiene, added Singh

The minister said that the department has started the work of distributing identity cards to street vendors. Around 16,000 cards have already been issued. Singh further added that the government is planning to accommodate vendors in malls and market complexes in all urban local bodies to ease traffic snarls. The move will provide vendors a decent space to eke out a living, the minister said, adding that the idea was to regularise vendors.

Ashish Singhmar, Director of Municipal Administration said that a directive had already been issued to all 44 ULBs to train vendors on food hygiene and the training has already begun in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Deogarh and Dhanbad.