Mangalore, May 23: Amidst the complaints of 'inhuman behaviour' by officials during a recent raid on unauthorized chaat stalls, a team of officials from Mangalore City Corporation on Wednesday carried out another round of surprise inspection in various parts of the city.
The inspection was carried out as per the orders of MCC Commissioner Dr K Harish Kumar. Environment engineer Manjunath R Shetty also accompanied the officials.
The raids on hotels and eateries unearthed the spoiled food materials and rancid oil.
The Health officials said that some of the hotels were also found to be short on cleanliness and lacking mechanisms to ensure maximum hygiene.
“If the hotels and restaurants fail to take necessary steps to improve hygiene and ensure cleanliness, we will go ahead with procedures including cancellation of licences,” they said.
Apart from small hotels and eateries, the officials also raided shops roadside stalls, some mobile phone shops and grocery stores.
A couple of shops were closed down by the officials for running business without obtaining proper licence. The shopkeepers were penalized on spot.
On last Sunday and Monday the MCC officials had raided more than 15 roadside chaat stalls and seized the eatables. Allegations were heard following these raid that officials themselves contributed to cleanliness problems by dumping all the food items from the raided stalls on the roadside itself.
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