CHENNAI: A ration store at Chennai’s suburb provided expired tea bundles to beneficiaries on Friday.
Folks from Kadambathur village at Thiruvallur district, that absorbed it without checking the expiry date on the wrapper, discovered that the tea extremely sour.
“The tea packs supplied to people had died annually (July 2020),” stated Ravi, among those residents who registered a complaint with the Chief Minister’s Special Cell.
Afterward, workers from the neighborhood ration store arrived in the complainant’s home and supplied new tea packets to them,” said Ravi.
When asked about it, a senior district civil provides officer stated that the salesman in the Public Distribution System (PDS) socket named Gandhi had wrongly provided an older inventory without checking the expiry date on it also and he’s very likely to face disciplinary actions because of it.
“There isn’t any point in attributing the salesman, that earns about Rs 5,000 a month.
Even the highly-paid officials, that are in-charge of tracking the whole supply chain, ought to be contested,” stated T Sadagopan by Tamil Nadu Consumer Progressive Centre, a non-profit organisation.
AS Balaji, yet another customer rights’ activist in Pattabiram, stated that ration stores in the town’s western suburbs don’t supply bills for some of the packed items offered to the general public.
In addition, there’s absolutely not any mention of this price tag, date expiry date about the wrappers, ” he explained.
When personal stores do not comply with these principles, they are sometimes reserved under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.
But authorities PDS shops rarely come under these principles, state activists, who rule the nation food and labour security department to get lesser amount of testimonials and inaction.