Goa FDA wins food ambassador award

The Directorate of Food and Drugs Administration Goa recently won a major award called ‘Safe & Nutrition Food Ambassador Award’. FDA Director, Salim A Veljee, was felicitated with this award by The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW).

The Goan NetworkPublished May 20, 2017, 6:58 PM IST

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FDA-Goa won this award for being an early adopter of a project under which it had trained 1,400 street food vendors in association with Nestle India and National Association of Street Vendors of India. Under this project, street food vendors in Goa were imparted special skill development training in sanitary and hygienic practices.

Speaking on this development, Veljee said, “This award is a great achievement for the directorate and the state government because it shows the efforts we have put in to ensure safe and nutritional food.”

Veljee received this award at the hands of Lystra Antonie, CEO, Global Food Safety Partnership, Program Manager, World Bank. Also present on the occasion were Amitabh Kant (CEO, Niti Aayog), Ashish Bahuguna (FSSAI Chairperson) and R K Vats (Additional Secretary, MoHFW).

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Maha bill shock for Goa electricity office

The Agarwada sub-divisional electricity office is used to voltage and high tension issues, but the division was in for a rude shock when it received a bill of Rs 1.5 crore from the Maharashtra government for supply of electricity to Tiracol village in Pernem taluka.

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Published May 20, 2017, 6:58 PM IST

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the goan I networkPERNEM Maharashtra electricity department officials have now threatened to disconnect power supply to the village if the bill is not cleared. Although Tiracol is a part of Goa, the village receives power supply from Maharashtra on account of its geographic location, which is on the Maharashtra side of the Tiracol river. There is a power shut down in Sindhudurg district every Monday and it also applies to Tiracol village.…

Goa FDA wins food ambassador award

Maha bill shock for Goa electricity office

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