Do you love asking for that extra ‘paani’ after eating some golgappas from your favourite “golgappe waale bhaiya?” You might also think sometimes, whether the water that’s being used is hygienic or not and if the hands are clean or not but then you let it go because well, golgappa it is!
However, after watching this Mumbai video, next time you’ll probably think hard before having golgappas.
Interestingly, this video has surfaced after a court in February this year, sentenced a golgappa vendor to six months of imprisonment after content of toilet cleaner were found in the water that he used to sell.
The video has been uploaded by Praveen Gomes on Facebook. “Mira Road people especially need to watch this.This is Sheetal Nagar paanipuri vendor (near church arch),” he wrote on the social networking website.
Even since the video was uploaded, it has gone viral on social media with over 189K views, 3296 shares and at least 40 comments.
Here’s what people wrote:
Earlier on May 9, 2017, the Bombay High Court asked, “Are Mumbaikars eating street food prepared using non-potable water? Is the ‘pani’ in the golgappa you have on the roads of Mumbai sourced from wells which do not supply potable water?. The high court had posed these questions to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Terming it a very serious issue, a division bench of Chief Justice Manjulla Chellur and Justice GS Kulkarni had asked the civic body to file an additional affidavit explaining its stand on whether water tankers which mostly provide water to street vendors in south Mumbai area, draw the water from wells, and if there was any regulation on the supply water.
