AHMEDABAD: Starting next week, the civic body will begin a drive against illegal ‘non-vegetarian’ food carts that have mushroomed across the city and are operating without valid municipal food vending licences. The announcement was made on Thursday by the standing committee chairman Hitesh Barot.
The ‘non-vegetarian’ food carts also include those selling egg preparations as well, Barot claimed.
While addressing a press conference, Barot said that the AMC had been receiving complaints from various residential areas and religious places to control proliferation of such illegal food outlets and the “health issues”.
When asked whether the present drive was against unhygenic ‘non-vegetarian’ food outlets only while other food outlets could operate, Barot said, “We are taking non-vegetarian food carts on priority for now, which does not mean that there is an exemption for other food outlets operating without food licences.
There is no provision in GPMC Act to act against illegal non-vegetarian food carts. But keeping in mind sanitation concerns we wanted that hand carts selling non-vegetarian food also adhere to norms,” he said.
