VADODARA: While the health department's food safety branch at the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) may have become aggressive with checking at eateries across the city, it is plagued by vacancies. The department is now looking to recruit more hands, but will still fall short of the required manpower.
The department currently has posts of 10 food safety officers out of which one is vacant. Sources said that as per the norms set by the state government, one food safety officer should be appointed for a population of one lakh. Going by this yardstick, the VMC should have 17 such officials.
Attempts were made to recruit officers as per the standards under the act, but the proposal in this regard did not get through the standing committee of the civic body. A fresh proposal has now been brought to create two more posts of food safety officers. The civic body plans to have one officer for each of the 12 administrative wards in the city. The committee will decide on it later this week.
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