Traders who are in possession of the banned gutka, pan
masala, and tobacco nicotine-added products should destroy or remove
them from their shops before June 22, said K. Baskaran, District
Collector.
The traders were given a month’s time to
remove them and those failing to do so would attract stern action, he
said speaking at a meeting with officials to discuss the matter here on
Saturday.
The Collector said awareness should be created among school and college students about the ban in the morning assemblies.
Municipal
commissioners of three municipalities in Thanjavur district should
conduct meetings of revenue divisional officers, police officers and
commercial tax officers periodically.
They should conduct raids, identify places where these articles are kept and destroy them.
People can contact the following numbers and give information if the banned articles are sold by any trader in the district.
People
can call 04362-276511, for Thanjavur region food security officer
Chandramohan on 9444111214, for Kumbakonam region Food security officer
V. Mahesh on phone number 9363366866, and for Pattukottai region,
Pattukottai Food Security Officer Mahadevan on phone number 812422236.
People
can contact District Food Security Officer N. Dakshinamurthy on
7373078502. People can contact in person the office for Food Security
and Drug Management Department, office complex of the Deputy Director of
Health Services, Gandhiji Road, Thanjavur.
Team formed
A
nine-member team has been formed in the district to monitor the
effective implementation of the ban on the production and marketing of
gutka, pan masala and tobacco in the district.
The
committee, led by the district collector, will include the
Superintendent of Police, District Revenue Officer, Deputy Director of
Health Services, Chief Educational Officer, District Social Welfare
Officer, municipal commissioners, Commercial Tax Officer, and Regional
Transport Officer.
The Collector in a release issued
here on Saturday said that stringent action would be taken against those
who continue to produce the banned items, stock them, and market them.
The
police and Commercial Tax Department officials will check the vehicles
transporting these banned items from other States and other districts at
all the check-post.
The officials will prepare a list of those who continue to involve in this business and blacklist them.
They have been told to destroy the stocks or face action
Officials told to keep a vigil on gutka, paan masala traders
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