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FSSAI extends deadline for CSC-SPV for registration of FBOs to March 31
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Saturday, 25 March, 2017, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
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The Food Safety Standards Authority of India has extended the deadline for Common Service Centre – Special Purpose Vehicle (CSC-SPV) for registration of food business operators (FBOs) to March 31, 2017.
The reason was that states have not opened bank accounts for the direct transfer of the fees collected through CSC.
The apex food regulator issued an order in this regard and clarified that the direct transfer of fees collected through CSC was not possible without the bank account details of the states and Union Territories.
According to a senior FSSAI official, the CSC was created at various places as special purpose vehicles to include more and more FBOs under the ambit of FSS regulations’ registration drive.
The fees collected at those centres now has to be transferred to the state governments’ treasury, and since many of the states were yet to give their account details, the dates has been extended further to March 31.
It is pertinent to mention here that with since the drive commenced, FSSAI has managed to get little over 35 lakh FBOs registered and licensed in the last five years, and last year the regulator decided to use the vast Aadhar centres to help the FBOs get registered under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, by using these centres as CSCs.
FSSAI has estimated that there are about two crore FBOs in the country, and to make a outreach to them, the decision to use the Aadhar centres was taken.
A final tally of the net registration done under these CSC will be out after March 31.
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