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Clean street food hubs will be made a reality in some main cities across the State, said Health Minister Veena George on Friday . The Food Safety department will implement this project in main cities, tourist centres and beaches where people congregate in large numbers. In the first phase, the project would be implemented in Kozhikode, Kasaragod, Alappuzha, Kottayam and Idukki. The effort is to make street food a safe proposition for the public. Small eateries and wayside vendors will come within the ambit of the project. About 20 to 50 small eateries in a locality would be considered as a cluster. All eateries in the cluster would be given training on serving safe and hygienic food and issued certificates also. Food Safety officials will conduct a pre-audit in the clusters in panchayats, municipality and Corporation areas, assess the facilities in each eatery and give sufficient directions to these eateries on serving clean and safe food. The employees in the eateries would … [Read more...] about Clean street food hubs planned

African workers for Chinese-owned mines and factories across southern Africa told the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in a report published Thursday that they regularly experienced various labor rights violations, including a lack of compensation for all hours worked and poor safety conditions. ISS said on June 30 that it recently interviewed an unspecified number of employees and former employees of Chinese-owned companies throughout six southern African nations for an upcoming study. The interviews spanned Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Detailing some of the information gathered so far, ISS wrote: [I]n general, interviewees who spoke to ISS field researchers raised concerns about labour rights violations and precarious employment conditions impacting the relationships between workers and Chinese employers. In particular, wages, especially for low-skilled workers, remain low – sometimes below the … [Read more...] about Chinese-Owned Mines Force African Workers into Unsafe Conditions

Local bodies should prepare the master plan of projects with foresight, keeping the future generations in mind, Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal has said. He was inaugurating a workshop on ‘Navakeralavum Navanagarasabhakalum’ jointly organised by the Mayors’ Council, Chamber of Municipal Chairmen, Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) and Kerala Municipal and Corporation Staff Union here on Saturday. “Practical plans should be formulated by ensuring the safety of youth. Besides allocating funds for projects, local bodies should also look for measures to raise funds. The government is trying to ensure social security through schemes such as Medisep,” the Minister said. He said training programmes were necessary to make the functioning of municipalities and Corporations more efficient. Mayor Prasanna Earnest presided over the functio,n while various local body representatives spoke on the occasion. … [Read more...] about Plan projects with foresight: Balagopal