Ahmedabad bans non-veg food stalls from public roads

Cction can be taken against street food carts that are selling "unhygienic" food.

Ahmedabad has become the latest city in Gujarat to push stalls selling non-vegetarian off main roads. The Ahmedabad municipal corporation ruled by the BJP has decided to prohibit non-veg food stalls from public roads and those operating within 100-metre radius of schools, colleges and religious places.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has, however, said that the state government does not have an issue with people consuming non-vegetarian food.

However, action can be taken against street food carts that are selling "unhygienic" food or if they are obstructing traffic on city roads, 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 & the stalls should not obstruct traffic flow: Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel in Anand pic.twitter.com/0839VdSjrp

— ANI (@ANI) November 15, 2021

"Our only concern is that the food sold from food carts should not be unhygienic," Patel said at a BJP programme at Bandhani village in Anand district.

The CM said local civic bodies take decisions on removing food carts if they hamper road traffic.

Local municipal corporations or municipalities take decisions to remove food carts. They can do so if they are obstructing traffic on city roads, he said.

The demand for removal of non-veg food carts from public places have also come from cities like Vadodara, Rajkot and Dwarka.

(With PTI inputs)