Responding to the concern expressed by members that highly adulterated milk, which was akin to poison, was being transported from Erode to Bangalore every day, Mr. Somanna said a decision on effectively tackling this menace would be taken in a week.
Earlier, Health Minister Arvind Limbavali told the House that 7.35 lakh litres of milk was being transported from other States to Bangalore everyday. This included 6.50 lakh litres of packaged milk being sold by private companies.
Probe sought
The Opposition members in the Legislative Council on Friday demanded that the government order an inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the affairs of the Sports Authority of Karnataka in the last three years.Tabling a call-attention notice in this regard, Congress member K. Govindaraju alleged that the interests of athletes and sports personalities had been completely ignored by the authority.
He alleged that there were instances where bills had been claimed for a 50-feet swimming pool though only 23-feet-long pool had been built. Similarly, bribes equivalent of 50 per cent of the prize money were being collected for giving sports awards including the prestigious Ekalavya award, Mr. Govindaraju alleged.
Responding to this, newly appointed Sports Minister Appachu Ranjan said he was ready to order a comprehensive inquiry if specific instances of irregularities were brought to his notice in writing.
Deadline extended
Health Minister Arvind Limbavali on Friday announced in the Legislative Council that the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India had extended the deadline for the traders of food items to register themselves and get license for their business by six months. Earlier, this deadline was supposed to end on August 5, 2012.He said the deadline had been extended as huge number of applications seeking registration and license were pending with the authority.
No comments:
Post a Comment