Sanjiv Bakshi

Hoshiarpur, September 25

Under the steerage of the District Health Officer, a meals security workforce seized and destroyed spurious inedible jaggery being constructed from a ‘Velna’ (cane juce expeller) on Tanda street close to Dosarka, busting an inter-state racket.

The individuals concerned in it had been from UP and producing spurious jaggery made with dangerous chemical substances and inedible sugar. The jaggery was then provided to completely different elements of Punjab, particularly Moga, by means of merchants and brokers. Under the supervision of District Health Officer Dr Lakhvir Singh, a big amount of jaggery, molasses and sugarcane juice was destroyed as we speak. These community operators from UP had been making enormous earnings by promoting it within the native market with the assistance of some merchants from Punjab. DHO Dr Lakhvir Singh mentioned, “Toxic dyes and other chemicals which were used in making jaggery were also recovered and destroyed on the spot.”

The DHO mentioned that sugarcane crop will not be but prepared in Punjab however the migrant labourers have began making jaggery by including inferior chemical substances and inedible sugar in unripe juice of sugarcane. “According to the environment of Punjab, jaggery can be prepared from ripened sugarcane in the months of November and December at the earliest. When we saw this velna, we were surprised. A large quantity of jaggery was being prepared with chemicals, colours and large quantities of inedible sugar that had dead flies in it.”

The workforce of the well being division destroyed the jaggery mendacity there. Also, the inedible color and different chemical substances had been additionally destroyed. “When asked about the licence for making jaggery, the velna operator showed a licence which was four years old. We have stopped the functioning of that velna and sealed it. No one would be able to operate it until permission is given by the health department,” mentioned the DHO whereas speaking to this correspondent over the telephone.

He mentioned that until sugarcane ripens totally, no velna might be allowed to function. Legal motion might be taken towards these discovered flouting the norms. He additionally appealed to the farmers to not provide sugarcane to those migrant employees till the crop ripens adequately.

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