A six-member committee constituted by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat for ensuring quality in food materials and medicines will be on a two-day visit to Chhattisgarh beginning on June 4.
During its visit, the committee members would be holding separate meetings at Hotel Babylon located on way to the Raipur airport. The parliamentary team would be arriving tomorrow at 8.30 am in Raipur airport.
The meetings to be held in the presence of Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Controller , Food and Drugs Administration besides representatives from Chamber of Commerce, food and drug manufacturers, chemists and druggists and consumer forum.
The committee members would first hear petitions related to meat exports, the amendments made in the Information Technology Act 2000 for prevention of distribution of obscene literature between 11.30 am to 1 pm.
The committee on June 5 will hold two separate meetings between 10.30 am to 1 pm. The first meeting would be held with the representatives of drug manufacturers in which other representation would be from Controller of Drugs, Health and Family Welfare Department and the Drugs Department.
The meeting would take up pleas on control of manufacture of spurious drugs and related issues for discussion.
During the second meeting, representatives of NGOs, consumer protection rganizations, Commissioner, Food Security and representatives of Health and Family Welfare Department would be present. The meeting would take up issues on checking food adulteration and use of safe food items by consumers in the country.
The six-member committee comprises — Commissioner, Drugs and PFA, Dr Ashok Giri, Nagpur, Government of Maharashtra, Commissioner, Drugs and PFA Dr Tomar, Raipur, Government of Chhattisgarh, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Dr Arun Panda, Deputy Drugs Controller General, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare C R Dalal, Director, Food Safety and Standard Authority of India, New Delhi and Pravin B Jain of CIDO, Nagpur.