Committee formed in 2013 to address complaints, discontinued a year later

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Its been a week since the Maharashtra State Chemists & Druggists Association (MSCDA) made allegations of corruption in state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Minister Sanjay Rathods office and threatened to go on strike if no action was taken...

In 2013, a committee was set up to address such complaints but was discontinued after the change of government in 2014..

During the tenure of former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, the then state government had on July 3, 2013 set up a committee to look into the issues raised by the association then..

Ten years later in 2023, with MSCDA levelling serious allegations of corruption against the staff in the FDA ministers office, the government has no platform to redress the grievances...

The association, in its letter dated April 18 addressed to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, accused Rathods personal secretary and officer on special duty of indulging in corruption and claimed that despite the association meeting Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Rathod, no action has been taken in the matter...

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