Civic physique drive: 14 eateries sealed for not following fireplace security norms in Surat

A day after the Surat Municipal Corporation issued notification permitting resorts and eating places to stay open with 50 per cent capability, the fireplace division on Thursday sealed 14 eateries for not following fireplace security norms in Surat metropolis. The municipal company may also conduct a drive to ensure all of the employees employed within the resorts and eating places are vaccinated.
Surat chief fireplace officer Basant Pareek mentioned, “We have started a drive to check if hotels and restaurants in the city are following guidelines. On the first day of the drive on Thursday, 14 eateries have been sealed. It will continue in the coming days. The seals will be opened only after the firm owners give us affidavits that they will install fire safety equipment in the next 15 days.”
Ahead of SMC’s resolution to permit resorts and eating places to open with 50 per cent capability, the Surat Municipal Corporation within the final 15 days distributed Covid well being playing cards — white and inexperienced — among the many resorts and eating places within the metropolis.
The inexperienced card incorporates the main points of the ability and his workers who’ve taken each the doses of Covid vaccine and in addition data on the variety of workers who’ve been contaminated and recovered. Those who had not been vaccinated and even examined for the virus are being given white well being playing cards.

SMC deputy well being commissioner Dr Ashish Naik mentioned, “Fifteen days ago, our health teams distributed Covid health cards among the hotel and restaurant owners and instructed them to get vaccinated or get their employees tested. From Friday, the hotels and restaurants will reopen, so our teams will go around checking if they are doing the needful, else action will be taken against them.”

There are over 2,500 meals carts, resorts, eating places and eating halls within the metropolis. “We will ensure that all our members get vaccinated at the earliest. In the next couple of days we will make a representation to the SMC commissioner to give us more time. We have demanded that the state government organises a separate vaccination camp for the hotel and restaurant industry people… We are at present working with 50 per cent staff. We have incurred great loss in the business since the start of Covid pandemic,” mentioned South Gujarat Hotels and Restaurant Association vp Arun Shetty.
Health officer of Central zone Mahendra Patel mentioned, “We have made 35 teams which will go around checking health cards and ensure that all the staffers are vaccinated. The teams will also direct the hotel staff to nearby Dhanvantri raths for vaccinations. They will also check if hygiene protocol are maintained.”