Thiruvananthapuram: Even When health squad After the municipal corporation started raiding hotels and issued notices, the civic body has so far failed to implement a sustainable project aimed at ensuring quality and hygiene of food in hotels.
During the tenure of the previous council, the Municipal Corporation had planned to start.subhojanam The objective of the scheme is to provide training for all employees working in hotels across the city as part of ensuring safe and healthy food for the customers. Hotel staff were to be given scientific training in personal hygiene, food handling and maintaining cleanliness in the places where food was prepared.
It was decided that the Health Officers of the Corporation would medically certify the employees of hotels engaged in preparing and serving food. Certificates and badges were to be issued to the employees who successfully completed the training programme. There were also plans to introduce grading for individuals, catering groups after the training programme. The plan also focused on improving the condition of the kitchen, store room, washroom and overall environment. As per the plan, hotels which go for up-gradation as per the conditions mandated by the Municipal Corporation, were to be given fixed ratings and these ratings would be revised on a timely monitoring basis.
Dress code for hotel staff was also to be introduced based on the area where they are employed. It was also decided to start a mobile lab for the analysis of food samples and drinking water. For smooth implementation of the scheme a special software was to be designed and integrated with Smart Trivandrum Mobile App.
The council meeting had also approved a proposal for drafting a bye-law and a detailed project report for the implementation of the scheme. The present Council has not yet taken up the plan and has not taken measures to revive the project. Fund requirements were to be met from plan funds or sponsorship, though no steps were taken to realize the project.
The corporation has been issuing improvement notices and show cause notices to hotels for the last two days. The eateries need to respond within three days and many hotels from where the stale food items were seized are functioning as usual. Health officials said they are currently only focusing on improvement notices and no hotel closure notices have been served yet. With hotels in the city repeatedly failing to maintain hygiene standards, the corporation had earlier prepared a proposal wherein the responsibility of serving fresh food in hygienic conditions would be entrusted to the hoteliers themselves. The idea was to classify hotels into different categories within the city limits.
As per the plan, the health team will inspect the classified hotels from time to time. At the end of each year the Corporation will award the best hotel from each category. Even new hotels will be included in different categories on the basis of evaluation.
During the tenure of the previous council, the Municipal Corporation had planned to start.subhojanam The objective of the scheme is to provide training for all employees working in hotels across the city as part of ensuring safe and healthy food for the customers. Hotel staff were to be given scientific training in personal hygiene, food handling and maintaining cleanliness in the places where food was prepared.
It was decided that the Health Officers of the Corporation would medically certify the employees of hotels engaged in preparing and serving food. Certificates and badges were to be issued to the employees who successfully completed the training programme. There were also plans to introduce grading for individuals, catering groups after the training programme. The plan also focused on improving the condition of the kitchen, store room, washroom and overall environment. As per the plan, hotels which go for up-gradation as per the conditions mandated by the Municipal Corporation, were to be given fixed ratings and these ratings would be revised on a timely monitoring basis.
Dress code for hotel staff was also to be introduced based on the area where they are employed. It was also decided to start a mobile lab for the analysis of food samples and drinking water. For smooth implementation of the scheme a special software was to be designed and integrated with Smart Trivandrum Mobile App.
The council meeting had also approved a proposal for drafting a bye-law and a detailed project report for the implementation of the scheme. The present Council has not yet taken up the plan and has not taken measures to revive the project. Fund requirements were to be met from plan funds or sponsorship, though no steps were taken to realize the project.
The corporation has been issuing improvement notices and show cause notices to hotels for the last two days. The eateries need to respond within three days and many hotels from where the stale food items were seized are functioning as usual. Health officials said they are currently only focusing on improvement notices and no hotel closure notices have been served yet. With hotels in the city repeatedly failing to maintain hygiene standards, the corporation had earlier prepared a proposal wherein the responsibility of serving fresh food in hygienic conditions would be entrusted to the hoteliers themselves. The idea was to classify hotels into different categories within the city limits.
As per the plan, the health team will inspect the classified hotels from time to time. At the end of each year the Corporation will award the best hotel from each category. Even new hotels will be included in different categories on the basis of evaluation.