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Food ministry sets up central grain analysis lab in Delhi's Krishi Bhawan
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Friday, 01 June, 2012, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d The ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution has set up Central Grain Analysis Laboratory (CGAL) in Krishi Bhawan to ensure quality food grains under the public distribution system (PDS). Inaugurating the laboratory, K V Thomas, minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution, said that random periodical check-up will be carried out by the lab to ensure that food grains being procured and distributed under PDS are of good quality.
The lab will have facilities for physical and chemical analysis of samples of wheat and rice collected from procurement centres, FCI stores and fair price shops. He said that the government is very conscious about the quality of PDS food grains hence it has directed its technical staff in the field to ensure that at each stage from procurement to storage and distribution quality should be maintained.
Thomas said that quality monitoring cells have also been set up at Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow and Pune to inspect food storage depots of FCI, CWC, state government and other procurement storage agencies and fair-price shops. These cells take up the samples of food grains to analysis at CGAL, New Delhi. He said that officers of his ministry have been directed to take up immediate investigations of the complaints relating to quality of food grains during procurement, storage and distribution received from NGOs, local representatives, state governments and consumers.
Thomas said that he has also requested to the state government to set up quality monitoring cell and laboratories at there level also.
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