Directorate of Information & Publicity
Government of NCT of Delhi

DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY
GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI
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• Delhi Govt introduces online payment system for food licensing, trains 23,000 street food vendors
• Simplified procedures will end corruption and improve public hygiene

New Delhi, July 20, 2016:

The Drug Control and Food Safety Department under the Health Department of the Government of NCT of Delhi has introduced online payment system for licensing and registration of food business operators (FBOs). Applicants can now pay dues through credit/debit card and netbanking. This will eliminate delay in collection of fees and simplify processes for applicants as well.

In another major initiative, the Department has undertaken the training and education of 23,000 street food vendors to ensure clean, wholesome and unadulterated food for the public. The trained vendors will be issued certificates and skill cards. The Department is also planning the next phase of this programme in which some 180,000 vendors will undergo training and education on hygiene and other issues.

The Department has also introduced a credit note system in dealings between the food safety officers and the food business operators, which used to be in cash. This practice of many years has now been shelved. In the new practice no cash dealings will be done. Instead, payment to FBOs will be made by the Department through a crossed account payee cheque.

Such measures will ensure transparency and also check corruption.

The Department has also taken steps to end the “Inspector Raj” by ending the practice of posting food safety officers to specific areas for long duration. To check growth of any nexus between inspecting offers and the trading community, the officers are now assigned areas on a daily basis, without prior information.

The Drugs Control Department has also cancelled licences of 14 medical stores situated in Mahinder Park, Chaukhandi and Chand Nagar to curb the sale of habit-forming drugs in Delhi. The Department also unearthed an unlicensed godown with large stocks of Buprenorphine, a habit-forming drug. It is coordinating with the Narcotics Control Bureau, UNODC, Delhi State AIDS Control Society and Delhi

Police to curb misuse of drugs.

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