(1) The employer of every undertaking shall provide and maination for the use of the motor transport workers at every place wherein one hundred motor transport workers or more ordinarily call on duty during every day, an adequate canteen in or near the place wherein the undertaking is situating is situated according to the standards prescribed in this rule.
(2) The employed shall submit for the approval of the Chief Inspector plans. and siteplan in duplicate of the binding to the standing to be constructed or adapted for use as a canteen.
2[(3) The canteen building shall be situated not less than 15.240. Metres form any latrine, urinal for 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 as 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 shall, kitchen, store room, pantry and washing place separately for workers and for utensils.
3[(5) In a canteen the floor and inside walls up to a height of 1.129 metre from the floor shall be made smooth, and impervious materials, the remaining portion of the inside wall 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 ceiling, passages and staircases shall be lime-washed, colour-washed or painted as the case may be. Limewashing or colour-washing shall be carried out once in every year and panting shall be carried out once in every three years;
(ii) all wood work shall be varnished or painted once in every 8
(iii) all internal structural iron or steel work shall be varnished or painted once in every these 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 out 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 suitable covered drain 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.