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Plan to move sellers into underground shops: Director SLPMCS
View(s):Managing Director of SLPMCS Suraj Kathurusinghe said they had a list of 19 vendors who have worked at Galle Face for a long time but that they did not hold official permits.
The plan is to move the sellers into 10 existing underground shops, he said, adding that more than one can occupy each if they were willing to share. “If there are any remaining vendors we will have to come up with a solution,” he said.
This process was initiated after health inspectors flagged sanitation issues and suggested that measures be taken to ensure that the vadai sold at Galle Face is not brought from homes but made at Galle Face “then and there”, Mr. Kathurusinghe explained. So the SLPMCS had attempted to move them into the cement shops where they can cook the food.
Mr. Kathurusinghe also said, however, that the Ports, Shipping and Aviation felt the carts were “ugly”, “dirty” and “broken” and that they discouraged tourists. This too had contributed towards the decision to regulate the vendors. Cement stalls were the solution and that they had to be built below ground because of the contract under which the government came to own Galle Face (that reportedly does not permit building above ground).
Meanwhile, public health officials from the Colombo Municipal Council said that when food is cooked at home and brought to Galle Face, it is exposed and unsanitary. They had suggested to the SLPMCS to install a shared kitchen and water source at Galle Face from which the carts can cook and operate. Although there are many mobile vadai carts around Colombo, health officials said that they made specific recommendations for Galle Face after conducting a health awareness programme there.
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