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Deputy Commissioner of Chamarajanagar Shreeroopa has directed officials to enforce maximum punishment connected shops selling baccy products without obtaining the required licence.
Chairing a gathering of the District Co-ordination Committee of the National Tobacco Control Programme successful Chamarajanagar connected Monday, Ms. Shreeroopa asked the officials to instruct shops selling baccy products to unafraid the indispensable licence.
“Those selling baccy products indispensable person a abstracted licence,” she said, portion asking the officials to instrumentality enactment against merchantability of baccy products successful usurpation of rules.
Calling for the constitution of a Tobacco Control Committee successful the territory to behaviour enforcement drives, the Deputy Commissioner said that shops recovered selling baccy products without a licence during inspections should beryllium imposed a dense good portion strict instructions should beryllium issued to get the indispensable licence.
“The merchantability of baccy products is not permitted wrong 100 metres of schoolhouse and acquisition instauration premises successful municipality and agrarian areas. Officials should cheque whether baccy products are being sold successful immoderate shops successful the restricted zone,” she said.
Block Education Officers should behaviour raids from clip to clip and enforce fines if violations are recovered and reports should beryllium submitted to the District Tobacco Control Cell.
Ms. Shreeroopa besides said peculiar gram sabhas should beryllium organised successful the 68 villages selected by the Health Department done a survey for the tobacco-free colony initiative. She directed officials to coordinate with the Health Department and strictly travel the criteria for the declaration of tobacco-free villages.
Additional Deputy Commissioner T. Javare Gowda, District Health and Family Welfare Officer S. Chidambara, Health Department’s Programme officers Chandrashekar and Sundaresh, taluk wellness officers and officials of assorted departments were contiguous astatine the meeting.
