Indore ADM food Abhay Bedekar carried out extensive inspection of the control units delivering ration under the PDS to the citizens. He was accompanied with officers of food department, MP state civil supply and food and drug department.
Total 7 control shops were surveyed and surprisingly none of the shop has the license issued under Food Safety Standards Act 2006. Four shops besides the PDS grains were also forcefully selling grocery items including tea leaf washing powder to the customers. The samples of different grocery items were taken from these control shops and around 205 kg goods were confiscated from all the 7 shops. Spices packets of Rohit brand without date and batch number were found at shri Krishna sahakari upbnhokta bhandaar for which action will be taken against Rohit spices brand manufacturer.
Besides, the action against other manufacturer of different grocery items which was found at the control ration shop as the sale of grocery items on the ration shop is illegal also the samples of different grocery items found at the control shops will be sent to state food laboratory and the action will be taken against the manufactures of these grocery items under section 26 section 51, 52 and section 31, during the inspection.
Surprisingly, all the seven control units which were surveyed Food Safety Standard Act license 2006 were not found. ADM food control Abhay Bedekar told The Pioneer that there are total 543 control units are present in Indore district from where the food items are distributed to the people under PDS. Now we are starting a complete on the spot review of all this 543 control units and the administration will visit each and every shop and also take feedback from the people. We will give show cause notice for the negligence found at the ration shops and also suspend the license of the license shop owner under section 3 and 7 of essential commodity act 1955.
The officers of food and civil supply Avinash Jain, Dharmendra Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Dharmendra Soni and Food and Drug department officers Manish Swami, Subhash Khedekar, Rakesh Tripathi, Ankur Gupta were present during the inspection.