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Lucknow: It has now been made mandatory for all restaurants, dhabas and hotels in Uttar Pradesh to publicly display the names of their managers or original owners. Apart from this, strict action will be taken against the owners or managers if any kind of adulteration is found. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held a meeting in which these decisions were taken. Recently, these orders have been issued by the Yogi government at a time when the matter of adulteration of animal fat in the ghee used in the prasad laddu in Tirupati temple is in discussion.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had ordered the officials in the meeting that it will be mandatory for chefs and waiters to wear masks and hand gloves while working at all food selling places like restaurants, dhabas, stalls, hotels etc. Apart from this, CCTV cameras will also be installed compulsorily in hotels and restaurants. The original owner of the property, its managers, managers will have to display their name on the board in a clearly legible manner. Along with this, the address will also have to be given.
Yogi said that we should not mix human waste in juice, roti daal etc. If anyone is caught doing so, strict action will be taken against him. Be it a small roadside dhaba or a big hotel, police verification of all employees and staff will also be mandatory. The order will be properly implemented by a joint team of the Food Safety and Drugs Department as well as the police and local administration. Apart from this, the Uttar Pradesh government is also considering amending the Food Safety and Standards Act to ensure that the quality standards of food sold in all food stalls, restaurants and hotels are maintained.
Apart from this, CCTV cameras will also have to be installed in the kitchen and other important places, the data stored in these cameras will have to be saved. The data will have to be handed over whenever the administration wants. This data can also be used to check whether the food is prepared properly in the kitchen or not. Just this month, locals in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, beat up a stall owner for mixing urine in fruit juice. These guidelines have been announced by the Uttar Pradesh government at a time when the issue of adulteration of food items and sale of bad goods is in discussion across the country.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had stayed the nameplate order
This year, the Uttar Pradesh administration issued an order that all dhaba and restaurant owners must compulsorily write their names on the route of the Kavad Yatra. The Supreme Court put a stay on this. The matter was heard in the Supreme Court in the month of July, in which the Supreme Bench said that the order issued by the Uttar Pradesh government to make the nameplate mandatory is discriminatory. The owners of stalls, dhabas or restaurants cannot be forced to write their names and the names of their employees. Later, the Supreme Court put a stay on the government's order. Now when the Yogi government has brought a similar order, it can also be challenged in court.
Dispute likely if other states emulate nameplate mandate in UP
The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered the owners of dhabas, carts or restaurants and hotels to compulsorily write their names. A similar order was issued for some areas during the Kavad Yatra in Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh. Now that the Yogi government has implemented this rule in the entire state, other states may also issue similar orders. This is likely to lead to controversy. Opponents claim that making nameplates compulsory is revealing the religion or caste of the dhaba or restaurant owners.