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Anganwadis continue to get rotten eatables
Bathinda, July 14 The Tribune team today found a packet of rotten eatables at an anganwadi centre of Mehma Sawai village. Though the packet has the manufacturing date of June on it and its expiry is after five months, the stuff in it is not worth human consumption. The officials concerned swung into action as soon as they got a wind of The Tribune team’s visit to various anganwadi centres. The CDPO, Jagtar Kaur, headed to Nehiawala village, where eatables for six anganwadi centres were kept, on vehicle No. PB27 3519. She kept a packet of rotten eatables in her vehicle. The centre in charge, Ms Darshana Kaur, made an entry on Page No. 23 of the snacks register stating that the CDPO took away a packet of rotten eatables from the centre at 3.30 pm. She picked up the packet in the presence of Ms Paramjeet Kaur, whose child attends the anganwadi, and Jaswinder Kaur. Both women signed the register as eyewitnesses. On the other hand, the CDPO made an entry that the eatables were found okay. The Tribune also has a packet of fungus-infested eatables procured from the anganwadi centre of Nehiawala village. The fresh stock of eatables was supplied to the centres on July 11. Ms Darshana Kaur said she didn’t receive any instruction regarding the distribution of eatables among children. When the centre in charge of an anganwadi centre at Mehma Sawai opened a box of eatables it was stinking and some packets had rotten stuff in them. The centre had received 11 kg biscuits. The centre in charge, Ms Sarbjeet Kaur, had informed the supervisors about the rotten biscuits. Sources said the concerned officials were running from one anganwadi centre to other to hush up the matter. Surprisingly, the quality control committee, which has to keep an eye on the quality of eatables, again gave the green light to rotten stuff. This is probably the result of lax attitude of the district administration in the case. No action has been taken against the firm supplying the eatables and the officials responsible for the distribution of rotten stuff among children and expectant mothers at anganwadis were also roaming free. Let alone the members of purchase and quality control committees, no action has been taken against even those officials who were caught on camera replacing rotten eatables at an anganwadi centre of Siwia village in the cover of darkness on the day the Deputy Commissioner ordered a probe into the matter following a news report in The Tribune. The district administration also left it to the officials of the Zila Parishad, who were themselves involved in the case, to lodge a complaint with the police against the supplier. About 80 per cent of the samples had failed during the probe conducted by the then Talwandi Sabo SDM, Mr Gurkirat Kirpal Singh. Despite all this the same firm is supplying the eatables to anganwadis and the same officials are allowing their distribution, with the same negligence. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Rahul Bhandari, said he would look into the matter tomorrow morning.  |
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