HYDERABAD: Officials of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will be dealing strictly with hoteliers and restaurateurs in Greater Hyderabad if they are found employing workers with infectious diseases. Stringent action would be initiated against them if they failed to get medical check ups done on the staff employed by them. The corporation now wants to include six new violations which are not mentioned or included in the GHMC Act 1955.
GHMC has sent proposals to the state government a few days ago for according permission for the imposition of a penalty for the proposed new violations which are not specifically mentioned in the sections 596 and 562 of GHMC Act.The proposed violations include imposing `500 for non-provision of working exhaust facility in hotels and restaurants kitchens, `500 for staff not wearing tidy clothes, head-cover and gloves, `500 against eating establishments for not conducting regular medical checkups of the employed staff. Those eateries found using unclean and broken utensils will be penalised by imposing a fine of `500 and hotels found without proper ventilation and adequate lighting in the kitchen would be fined for `500.
The GHMC Standing Committee, in the last meeting, had approved the said proposals and recommended to the state government for issuing necessary orders.
Mobile app for penalising violators
GHMC has also developed a mobile app and related software and hardware for issuing e-challans for fining violators during inspections as prescribed under sections 596 and 562 of the GHMC Act. GHMC has decided to adopt the e-challan system for fining violators during inspection of hotels and
restaurants through mobile app.