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Illegal plants boost water business in Telangana

6,000 illegal water plants function from GHMC limits.

Water cans must be made of polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride or polypropylene which costs Rs 280 to Rs 400 apiece.

Hyderabad: The rising demand for purified water has led to the mushrooming of nearly 6,000 unauthorised manufacturing plants. These plants do business worth Rs 100 crore every month. According to records with the Bureau of Indian Standards, only 106 purified water plants across the state have licences, 47 in the city.

With many colonies suffering from poor supply, and middle-class families preferring to purchase purified water instead of the drinking water supplied by the Water Board, demand for bottled water is high. The board supplies water to nearly 1,500 colonies located on the city’s outskirts in three or four days, forcing residents to purchase the 20-litre cans paying Rs 20 to Rs 35 apiece.

As per an official estimate, nearly 30 lakh bubble cans are sold every month in the city, of which only five lakh are supplied by branded companies and another five lakh by water purification plants that meet ISI standards. The remaining cans are produced by illegal manufacturers. It is estimated that another 50 lakh 20-litre water cans are sold at bus stands, railway stations, canteens and hotels under GHMC limits. Only about half the water bottles that are sold in the city are from branded companies.

Sections 79 and 80 of the Food Safety and Standards Regulations, 2006 state that all plants purifying water should be licensed by the BIS. It takes Rs 25 lakh to set up a water purification plant as per norms, including obtaining licence from the BIS, sophisticated equipment, microbiological lab to test samples and recruiting a chemist. It takes only about Rs 3 lakh to set up an unauthorised plant. BIS director M.V.S.D. Prasada Rao said the bureau had the authority to conduct raids and checks at the plants which have obtained licence to ensure that standards are maintained.

“As per the law and regulations, officials responsible for food safety, GHMC and revenue department officers and the Indian Institute of Preventive Medicine have to crack the whip on illegal water plants. If we identify illegal plants during our raids, we pass on the information to departments,” he said.

Not yet 'made', murabba finds way to shop shelves

1kg pack of Aawla Murabba, manufactured by Patanjali Ayurveda.

LUCKNOW: Officials of the Food Safety and Drug Administration department tumbled upon two 1-kg packs of Aawla Murabba (manufactured by Patanjali Ayurveda), which mentioned the date of manufacturing of the Murabba as October 20, 2016, while its expiry date has been mentioned as October 19, 2017. Interestingly, this sample of Murabba was available for sale in the market. 

The sample was taken from a retail shop located in Kalyanpur Ring Road.

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கலப் பட பொருட் கள் விற் பனை செய் வோர் மீது கடும் நட வ டிக்கை எடுக் கப் ப டும் என்று தஞ்சை மாவட்ட உணவு பாது காப்பு நிய மன அலு வ லர் ரமேஷ் பாபு கூறி னார்.

தஞ்சை மாவட்ட உணவு பாது காப்பு மற் றும் மருந்து நிர் வாக துறை ( உணவு பிரிவு) மாவட்ட நிய மன அலு வ ல ராக பணி யாற் றிய தட் சி ணா மூர்த்தி நாகை மாவட் டத் திற்கு இடம் மாற் றம் செய் யப் பட் டார். இதைத் தொடர்ந்து திரு வா ரூர் மாவட்ட நிய மன அலு வ ல ராக பணி யாற் றிய ரமேஷ் பாபு தஞ்சை மாவட்ட உணவு பாது காப்பு நிய மன அலு வ ல ராக நேற்று பொறுப் பேற் றர்.

இவர் தஞ்சை மாவட் டத் தில் கலப் பட பொருட் கள் விற் பனை செய் வோர் மற் றும் சுகா தா ரம் இல் லாத பொருட் கள், கலா வ தி யான பொருட் கள் ஆகி ய வற்றை விற் பனை செய் வோர் மீது கடும் நட வ டிக்கை எடுக் கப் ப டும் என்று கூறி னார்.

Cops cannot prosecute people possessing gutkha: Bombay HC

Manufacture, sale and storage of Gutkha is banned in Maharashtra.

The Bombay High Court on Friday held that police action under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, applied on people possessing and storing Gutkha was illegal, and under the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) only the food safety inspector had the powers to take action.

Sale/manufacture and storage of Gutkha has been banned in Maharashtra since 2013. A division bench of justice AV Nirgude and justice Indira K Jain, while quashing the criminal complaint against 21 people, said: "The food safety officers were not prohibited from proceedings against the applicants/petitioners under provisions of chapter X of the Food and Safety Standard (FSS) Act, 2006."

Appearing for one of the petitioners, advocate Rahul Totala said: "The court has quashed police action under sections 372, 373, 188 and 328 of the Indian Penal Code, but not prohibited the Food Safety Inspectors from taking appropriate action."

The accused had argued that as per the FSS Act, the authority can initiate police action. The court said: "By no stretch of imagination, manufacturing and possessing gutkha and pan masala would amount to administering poison."

The court, while passing the order, also took into consideration that the authority had not carried out any analysis on the seized products. The bench said: "Therefore, it cannot be said that gutkha and pan masala are stupefying, intoxicating or unwholesome drug. Besides, offering these items of food would not amount to intention to cause hurt."