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JAMMU: Voicing concern over the sale of poor-quality food items, especially adulterated sweets flooding the markets, Choudhary Sukhnandan Kumar, former Minister and senior leader of BJP asked the administration to promptly check the mal-practices playing havoc with the people’s health and lives.
Sukhnandan, accompanied by former VC Balbir Ram Rattan and Dr Makson Tickoo expressed this concern while addressing the media persons at BJP headquarters, Trikuta Nagar, here on Monday.
Ch Sukhnandan, while greeting people on the pious occasion of Deepawali, voiced his concern over the poor-quality eatables, especially sweets.
He raised his concern saying that the raw materials used in these sweets are way more costly than the finished sweets items and questioned how is it even possible. No manufacturer can afford to purchase the costly raw material items and later sell the finished items at lower rates.
He said that this adulteration is playing havoc with the health and lives of people and often forces people to land in costly hospitals due to the damage to the vital organs in the human body over time.
Sukhnandan asked the newly elected government, administration, and the Enforcement Wing to take immediate notice of this malpractice and save the people, stressing that the celebrations of the Deepawali festival have almost begun and the people are making purchases of different items, including sweets.
The departments concerned should work in unison to take samples of different varieties of sweets to ensure that the people get pure quality sweet items.
Sukhnandan cautioned the administration to take notice of this malpractice by the big players who have established various units in Jammu itself and take samples of the sweets coming from outside as well.
The enforcement wing is harassing small shopkeepers, sparing the actual big players of this game on the ground, which is highly unjustified, he added.