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A. Joglekar ¹, S. Bhoi ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, Govt.g. N.a. P. G.college, Bhatapara C.G., IN
2 Department of Home Science, Govt. D.b. Girls P.g. College,raipur, C.G., IS

Abstract

Street food popularly known as ready to eat food is ubiquitous these days. The foods are prepared bad, sold at vending places. The present study aimed to observe the personal and environmental hygiene of the vendors and its surrounding. A total of 200 street food vendors were selected from different areas of Raipur city. Demographic profile of selected vendors, their personal hygiene and environmental hygiene were recorded using pre-formatted questionnaire. All the results were statistically analyzed using SPSS software. The result revealed that, 76 per cent vendors were found neat and clean. Only 3.5 per cent vendors were observed using gloves, where as we didn't find any vendor using head gear (cap). 74.5 per cent stalls were close to open drainage line, in 84 per cent cases there were insects around the stalls. Only 54 per cent stalls had open dust bins. It can be concluded, that personal hygiene of vendors and environment of the surrounding was unsatisfactory. Awareness programmes at regular intervals are the need of recent times for healthy society and clean environment.

Keywords

Street Food, Spitting Habit,open Garbage, Clear Surrounding

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A. Joglekar ¹, M. Tadwalkar ¹, M. Mhaskar ¹, B. Chavan ¹, K. N. Ganeshaiah ², A. Patwardhan ¹

Affiliations
1 Research and Action in Natural Wealth Administration, 16, Swastishree Society, Ganesh Nagar, Pune 411 052, IN
2 Team Members, Western Ghats Bioresource Mapping Project of Department of Biotechnology, IN

Abstract

We established belt transects of 1000 m &3#215; 5 m in Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary at 12 different localities, to study tree species diversity. A total of 4296 individuals of girth at breast height (GBH) ≥15 cm were enumer-ated belonging to 108 species. A subtype of Memecylon-Syzygium-Olea was identified based on dominance from the area previously ascribed to Memecylon-Syzygium-Actinodaphne floristic series. Out of 41 fam-ilies, Melastomataceae, Myrtaceae and Moraceae were found to be dominant families according to the Family Importance Value. Shannon index (H') ranged from 1.5 to 3.03. Taxonomic diversity measured for each sampled locality using normalized simple Avalanche index showed variation between 0.104 and 1.00 and positive correlation with H'. Rarity score for identify-ing unique tree species composition correlated posi-tively with simple avalanche index. Evergreen forest of Navja and Ozarade together showed highest popula-tion of IUCN-listed tree species. This study shall pave the way for the subsequent ecological research in this area which has recently been declared as a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Keywords

Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary, Memecylon-syzygium-olea, Rarity Score, Simple Avalanche Index.

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