Mumbai is finally witnessing what governance looks like when an honest officer simply does his job with integrity.
Famous eateries such as K Rustom, Shalimar and others are being raided, unhygienic dairies like Parsi Dairy are being shut, and now Maharashtra has introduced stricter food safety rules - free drinking water, no newspaper wrapping, staff health checks, food safety training, stricter hygiene and more.
Makes you wonder, if every IPS, IAS and IRS officer worked with this kind of integrity, how different would India look!
If you still do not know who I am talking about, it is newly appointed FDA Commisioner Tukaram Mundhe. 🫡
While the whole country is debating petrol-ethanol, the bros from Madhya Pradesh have already pulled off what is arguably India's first major ethanol scam, not counting you know who.
There is a govt policy that surplus rice in govt warehouses can be sold to ethanol manufacturers at subsidised rates to prevent it from rotting.
According to a Dainik Bhaskar report, the scam began when some officials allegedly (willingly?) ignored the rules and allocated "newly procured" fortified rice (not even regular rice, but fortified rice) for ethanol production. The rice, bought at a high price (₹4,000 per quintal), was sold at a throwaway price (₹2,320 per quintal) to ethanol plants.
The ethanol plant operators allegedly knew it was fortified rice, so instead of using it to make ethanol, they sold it to rice millers at ₹2,800 per quintal, and instead bought cheap broken rice (₹2,100 per quintal) from the open market for ethanol production, making an overall profit of ₹700 per quintal.
The rice millers allegedly repacked the fortified rice in new gunny bags and supplied it back to the govt as freshly milled rice. The govt paid them milling charges, while the govt supplied paddy they were actually supposed to mill was allegedly sold in the open market for another round of profit.
So the same bag of rice allegedly kept changing hands: govt warehouse to ethanol plant to rice mill to back to govt warehouse. Everyone in the chain allegedly made money.
The MP govt formed an SIT. So far, four people have been arrested and 12 trucks seized. Investigators suspect that up to 50 lakh quintals of govt rice, worth around ₹1,160 crore, may have been diverted through this alleged racket.
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I write on the US role in the recent India-Pakistan Crisis: Washington played an important role in brokering a ceasefire, but its haphazard and confused approach to crisis diplomacy has heightened the risks in the subcontinent for the long-term.
https://t.co/9R5Easuq6g
We spoke to dozens of Indian television journalists to investigate the origins of the misinformation in India during the conflict with Pakistan. WhatsApp messages from those nights reveal a mixed picture. Gift link below.
https://t.co/ec2QioFF2n