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Gujarat FDCA to set up 7 new district offices, plans 5th food & drug testing lab
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Suja Nair Shirodkar
August 22 , 2015
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In a move to meet the growing demands and strengthen the existing
regulatory framework, the Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration
(FDCA) is soon planning to set up 7 new district offices across the
state. These offices will be built in the seven districts that have been
formed post the re-organisation of the state, on August 15 last year
for better administrative process, bringing the total number of
districts in the state to 33.
It is understood that to ensure
good governance and effective monitoring and implementation of the Drugs
and Cosmetics (D&C) Act in these districts, the state drug
regulator had made a strong representation to the state government last
year itself requesting allotment of funds for setting up new drug
regulatory offices in these places. Currently, all the administrative
and regulatory functions of these districts are commenced through the
district offices they were part of.
The seven new offices will be
established in Aravalli which was split from Sabarkantha; Botad created
from parts of Ahmedabad and Bhavanagar districts; Chhota Udaipur split
from Vadodara district; Devbhoomi Dwarka split from Jamnagar; Mahisagar
created from parts of Kheda and Panchmahal; Morbi created from parts of
Rajkot, Surendranagar and Jamnagar districts and Gir Somnath split from
Junagadh.
Dr H G Koshia, commissioner Gujarat FDCA informed that
the state government has shown positive inclination towards supporting
the state drug regulatory office by earmarking funds for the same. He
informed that apart from creating new offices in these areas, they also
plan to invest for expansion and capacity building measure of the
existing facilities as per the latest requirements.
Most
importantly, he stressed that serious consideration is also given to
create new food and drug testing laboratories in the state so that the
state is well equipped to handle increasing work load without
compromising on quality by over-stressing their resources. At present
there are four testing laboratories in the state, two dedicated food
testing laboratories in Rajkot and Bhuj respectively and two state of
the art food and drug testing laboratory at Baroda and Siddhapur in the
northern part of Gujarat, for the dual purpose of testing food and drug
samples from across the state.
“We are very happy to announce
that the state government has agreed to release funds essential for the
over all up-gradation and development of the state drug regulatory body.
Not only we will be able to expand our existing facilities as per the
latest regulatory requirements it will also allow us to create new
infrastructure as well for meeting the growing demands in the state,” he
added.
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