Section 17 in The Orissa Motor Transport Workers' Rules, 1966
17. Canteen.
(1)The employer of every undertaking shall provide for the use of the motor transport workers at every place wherein one hundred motor transport workers or more ordinarily call on duty during everyday, an adequate canteen in or near the place wherein the undertaking is situated according to the standards prescribed in this rule :Provided that in suitable cases the State Government may relax one or more of the conditions.(2)The employer shall submit for the approval of the Chief Inspector, plans and site plan in duplicate of the building to be constructed or adopted for use as a canteen.(3)The canteen building shall be situated not less than 50 feet from any latrine, urinal or any other source of dust, smoke or obnoxious fumes:Provided that the Chief Inspector may in any particular case relax the provision of this sub-rule to such extent may be reasonable in the circumstances and may require measures to be adopted to secure the essential purpose of this sub-rule.(4)The canteen building shall be constructed in accordance with the plans approved by the Chief Inspector and shall accommodate at least a dining hall, kitchen, store room, pantry and washing places separately for workers and for utensils.(5)In a canteen, the floor and inside walls up to a height of 4 feet from the floor shall be made of smooth and impervious material; the remaining portion of the inside walls shall be made smooth by cement plaster or in any other manner approved by the Chief Inspector.(6)The doors and windows of a canteen building shall be of fly-proof construction and shall allow adequate ventilation.(7)The canteen shall be sufficiently lighted at all times when any person has access to it.(8)(a)In every canteen-(i)all inside walls of rooms and all ceilings, passages and straircases shall be lime-washed or painted, as the case may be. Lime-washing or colour-washing shall be carried out once in every year and painting shall be carried out once in every three years;(ii)all woodwork shall be varnished or painted once in every three years; and(iii)all internal structural iron or steel work shall be varnished or painted once in every three years :Provided that inside walls of the kitchen shall be lime-washed once in every four months.(b)Records of dates on which lime-washing, colour-washing, varnishing or painting, as the case may be, is carried on shall be maintained in a register in Form No. IV.(9)The precincts of the canteen shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Waste water shall be carried away in suitably covered drains and shall not be allowed to accumulate so as to cause a nuisance. Suitable arrangement shall be made for the collection and disposal of garbage.
