Now district magistrates along with executive magistrates will conduct countrywide special drives on secret informations against much-talked-about food adulterating, home ministry issued a circular in this regard yesterday.
The circular issued on Tuesday after a meeting on law and order situation at the home ministry on July 21, 2014.
The ministry named the drive as ‘Anti-food adulterating drive’.
According to the circular, the anti food adulteration special drive will be conducted by district magistrate through mobile court magistrates drives against those who are involved in adulteration of food by taking advantage of the existing Mobile Court Act, Pure Food Ordinance, Consumer Protect Act and the Food Act.
The drives will be conducted based on secret informations by executive magistrates working in the DC and UNO offices. They will mete out serious punishments to unscrupulous businessmen engaged in adulterating foodstuff.
The deputy commissioners (DCs) and upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) to immediately form district and upazila-level monitoring committees to conduct the special drives properly.
The ministry circular ordered a working guideline in this regard in both district and upazila level as the special drive will be supervised by a 29-member committee with local lawmakers as advisor and District Magistrate as President.
In Upazila level, a 19-member committee headed by Upazila Parishad chairman and local MP as advisor will supervise the drive.
The responsible committee also asked to hold monthly review meetings about the special drives.
The Home ministry also ordered the field-level officers to form each monitoring committee with members. The members should come from from law enforcement and intelligence agencies, local business associations, civil society and the press.