Bathinda, January 12
District health authorities will be holding camps in various parts of the district from next week onwards in order to speed up the work of registration under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA).
With the last date for registration under the Act nearing (February 4) very few have got themselves registered and applied for licences with the health department. “Now we have decided to convene a meeting with all these people after Lohri so that they can be appealed to speed up the registration procedure. As soon as the meeting is held, we will chart out strategy to hold a series of camps in various areas wherein the licensing authority will be nearer to people to get the work done,” said the district health officer Dr Raghubir Singh Randhawa.
At these camps, emphasis would be laid on providing on-the-spot registration to save the shopkeepers from going to the health department for the work.
He added that during a recently conducted state-level meeting, there was no indication of increasing the deadline for registration and obtaining licences.
Sources in the health department said the government was not emphasising on the procedure even as the time was running out, as most of the traders are associated with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), a partner in the ruling alliance in state.
“With the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) elections and the MCB elections round-the-corner, the government does not want to spoil the mood of its ruling partner. No one is being forced to get the registration done and the government is working at slow pace,” confided a health official.
District health authorities will be holding camps in various parts of the district from next week onwards in order to speed up the work of registration under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA).
With the last date for registration under the Act nearing (February 4) very few have got themselves registered and applied for licences with the health department. “Now we have decided to convene a meeting with all these people after Lohri so that they can be appealed to speed up the registration procedure. As soon as the meeting is held, we will chart out strategy to hold a series of camps in various areas wherein the licensing authority will be nearer to people to get the work done,” said the district health officer Dr Raghubir Singh Randhawa.
At these camps, emphasis would be laid on providing on-the-spot registration to save the shopkeepers from going to the health department for the work.
He added that during a recently conducted state-level meeting, there was no indication of increasing the deadline for registration and obtaining licences.
Sources in the health department said the government was not emphasising on the procedure even as the time was running out, as most of the traders are associated with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), a partner in the ruling alliance in state.
“With the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) elections and the MCB elections round-the-corner, the government does not want to spoil the mood of its ruling partner. No one is being forced to get the registration done and the government is working at slow pace,” confided a health official.
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