The Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC), which is taking various measures to check the outbreak of diarrhoea in the city, has issued instructions to the Pani Puri vendors that they will not be allowed to run their business unless they don’t maintain hygiene at their roadside stalls. The civic body has also served notices on 25 private water plants to produce their licences, ISO certificates and recent laboratory reports on water samples and other permits.
GMC Commissioner Keerthi Chekuri issued the instructions to the Pani Puri vendors after a report prepared by Dr. G. Sobha Rani, Civil Surgeon Bacteriologist at Regional Public Health Laboratory in Guntur maintained that unhygienic conditions at the vends might be the reason for the diarrhoea outbreak.
In the report, Dr. Sobha Rani requested the GMC Commissioner to issue suitable orders to Pani Puri vendors to maintain hygiene at their stalls such as taking anti-fly measures and protecting the eatables from dust.
