New Delhi: Union Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said that a Grievance Redressal Cell has been established to solve the problems faced by food processors during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal said in a tweet on Friday that industry members facing any problem in operations and distribution of food products could send their queries to covidgrievance-mofpi@gov.in.
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She further said the government is committed to ensure the continuity of agro-food business, for which a Business Immunity Platform by the address of www.investindia.gov.in/bip has been designed as a comprehensive resource to help business and investors in this regard.
The Secretary of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Pushpa Subrahmanyam has written a letter to the Chief Secretaries of all states regarding the need for continuous functioning of food industry and their suppliers. A list of essential food products and their inputs has been enclosed with the letter.
The Secretary has stated that the availability of raw materials, packaging materials, movement of trucks carrying them, functioning of their warehouses and cold storages and ability of workers to come and work in the factories and warehouses needs to be ensured for maintaining food supply chain for the general population.
MoFPI Secretary further asked the Chief Secretaries to instruct District Collectors, Police and Transport officials to enable continuous functioning of food products factories, movement of their products and inputs/raw materials and allowing workers to attend those factories.
Besides that, she has requested them to nominate a Nodal Officer at the State level to receive any report regarding the disruption in food supply chain.
