‘Action being initiated against one’
District Collector B. Lakshmikantham on Saturday warned that gutkha-sellers would be ostracised from the district.
Addressing a meeting to review action initiated by the Vigilance and Monitoring wings against those found resorting to sale of gutkha in the last one week, Mr. Lakshmikantham said that such law-violators would be ostracised from the district.
The Collector said one Gelli Kishore, a native of Machilipatnam, who was caught selling gutkha on four different occasions despite repeated warnings, was being ostracised from the district.
Raids on his house had yielded gutkha stocks worth ₹25.46 lakh.
He directed the officials to book criminal cases and levy heavy fine on those found selling food items for excess price.
Officials of the drug control department should inspect medical stores at regular intervals.
Inspection of FP shop
He said the official inspecting the Public Distribution System point in Tiruvuru last week to assess the available stocks had found 1,550 kg less rice and 56 kg less sugar. In the stocks allocated under the Ramzan Tohfa scheme, 17 kg excess sugar, 15 kg excess wheat flour, 11 kg excess semolina and 800 ml less ghee was detected. The officials had also seized 28 LPG cylinders. The food safety wing officials visited the Anganwadi centres at Challapalli and Avanigadda, collected food samples and sent them for analysis.
Officials of the drug control wing raided 71 shops in Vidyadharapuram, Ramarajyanagar, Eluru Road and Patamata in Vijayawada besides Guntupalli, Paritala, Pedana, Gampalagudem and a few other places and issued suspension orders to the owners for violation of norms.
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