Ahmedabad: Stalls Selling Non-Vegetarian Food To Not Be Allowed Along Public Roads From Tuesday

Earlier, the civic bodies of Vadodara and Rajkot reportedly issued an order stating that non-vegetarian food sold on the street hurts the sentiments of the Hindu community.

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New Delhi: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Town Planning Committee has decided that stalls selling non-vegetarian food items will not be allowed along public roads.

“Stalls selling non-vegetarian items will not be allowed along public roads and in the 100-meter radius of schools, colleges and religious places, Town Planning Committee of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided. The execution will start tomorrow”: Committee Chairman Devang Dani told news agency ANI.

Earlier, the civic bodies of Vadodara and Rajkot had issued an order stating that non-vegetarian food sold on the street hurts the sentiments of the Hindu community, Times Now reported. It was stated that the smoke emanating from these stalls is a health hazard. 

According to a report by the Indian Express, AMC Revenue Committee chairman Jainik Vakil wrote to Municipal Commissioner and the Standing Committee on November 13 to ban the sale of non-vegetarian food on roads citing “Gujarat’s identity and Karnavati city’s cultural tradition”and “in order to immediately clear encroachment by illegally proliferating non-vegetarian carts on city’s public roads, religious and educational places and other places”.

As per the report, it was clarified that the vendors will not be fined but will be asked to remove the carts. 

In case of non-compliance, the carts would be seized. 

AMC’s TP committee chairman Devang Dani justified the decision saying, “There were public complaints of bad smell especially from morning walkers, residents visiting religious places and parents as these were leaving negative impact on minds of young children”, Indian Express reported.

Meanwhile, as the crackdown on non-vegetarian food stalls on Ahmedabad roads begins on Tuesday, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said: “It is not a question of vegetarian and non-vegetarian. People are free to eat whatever they want. But the food being sold at stalls should not be harmful and the stalls should not obstruct traffic flow”, ANI reported.