Taking action against the medical stores, Shivpuri collector OP Shrivastava ordered probe against all the medical shops and sealed a medical store of the city on Tuesday. The administration has sealed the Kapil medical store due to lack of the retail licence while raided the Vikas, Mohan, Gopal, Saumya, Pradeep and Jai Shiv medical stores of the city.
Shrivastava sealed the Drug office as the drug inspector Shasendra Kumar Rajak and a wholesaler were involved in providing the wholesale licenses to the people. According to the Government data, the number of wholesale licenses is more than the number of retail licenses in Shivpuri.
The medical store owners are selling the medicines on the wholesale license. The owners have opened several shops on a single license. Some license-holders have also rented their licenses in order to earn money. Notably, the drug inspector of Shivpuri, Shasendra Kumar Rajak has been absent for two years but he has been running his system through the various touts. Rajak has not received his salary for 22 months, he had also filed a case regarding his in the high court. Even after his absence various people have got medical licenses.
After the district Collector planned an action on the medical stores, Rajak was called, but he did not respond the phone call. later, the administration also sealed the office of Rajak.
A team of officials raided the Kapil medical store on Tuesday on the order of district collector OP Shrivastava.
The store owner failed to produce the retail license hence the district administration sealed the medical store.
The team comprised Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Vishnukant Khare, Naib Tehsildar Neelam Patseriya.