Ranchi: The Ranchi government has failed to carry out his annual pre-diwali inspection for quality control and forgery in the city’s sweet shops and stores that sell Savouries.
When Tii contacted several prominent sweet shops in the city they said that no one visited them after September 20 this year and said they were also surprised when they did not have this year’s inspection team during the celebration season.
“At this time, when it was only four more days, I expected at least two visits according to the District Administrative Team to sample the candy collection of my shop but no one changed Yup and it was rather surprising to me,” said a sweet shop owner at Kutchery Chowk .
After contact, state food laboratories confirm that they only accept supervision samples and no legal samples collected this year.
The Head of the State Food Laboratory, Dr.
Chamaturbhuj Meena, said: “We do not get legal samples for testing and all legal samples are sent to the National Food Testing Laboratory in Kolkata.” Because asked whether they received a sample from Ranchi for testing, Dr.
Meena said that the number of samples had fallen because there was a labor crisis.
“We have a labor crisis and according to my information, food security officers from Ranchi have left their jobs.
So it has influenced the collection of samples.” The source in Ranchi T administration confirmed that food security cells had collected around 15 samples in September but after officers Food security left his job, no one collected samples since then.
SDO is a nodal official for the collection and testing of samples for forgery and since Ranchi’s food security officer left his job, no one went for a collection of samples.
Ranchi Sdo Deepak Kumar Dubey did not answer many calls from TOI.