Govt seals seven businesses

Kathmandu, Aug 21: The government Sunday sealed seven businesses including sweets, health clinic, pharmacy, grocery store and college canteen in the Kathmandu Valley.

A monitoring team from the Ministry of Supply closed off  Trinity College’s canteen, Lalitpur General Practice Clinic, Lagankhel Polyclinic, Ayush Phramacy Lagankhel,, Health Link Reliable Lab and Clinic, Bagmati Sweets and Non Stop 365.

Spokesperson of the Ministry Ananda Ram Regmi informed that the canteen of Trinity College was very dirty and the food items were rotten and developed fungus.

Lalitpur general Practice Clinic, Lagankhel Polyclinic and Health Link Reliable Lab were running without renewal while Ayush Pharmacy was found selling narcotic drugs without physician’s prescription and maintaining the log of such drugs sold.

Similarly, the kitchen of Bagmati Sweets at Tripureshwor was found very unhygienic.

Non Stop 365 Balaju was charging more than 60 per cent of the actual price on Baby Milk items and selling date expired items.

“The monitoring team has sealed those businesses and started process to punish the wrongdoers,” said Regmi.

 Likewise, the Ministry has barred Triveni Beverage from producing and distributing 20 litre of water jars as the plastic jars the company was using to bottle water were found contorted.

The company is asked to be present at the Department of Commerce and Supply Management.

The monitoring team found that date of goods at CG Mart Kalanki, Organic Kitchen Mart Balaju, and Sulav Superstore Naya Bazaar expired.