The Home Ministry has told a parliamentary panel that some Border Security Force (BSF) officers were found to be “negligent” in the wake of complaints of poor quality of food being served to jawans. Action has been initiated against “some persons”. The admission by the Union Home Secretary before the Committee on Estimates headed by Murli Manohar Joshi is significant as constable Tej Bahadur Yadav, who had complained about sub-standard food being served to the jawans, was sacked in April 2017. The BSF had said he was “found guilty of certain charges of indiscipline, including uploading a video in violation of laid-down procedures and rules”.
“Sir, there are two things regarding the video that has been posted and wherein complaint has been made about the quality of food being served in BSF,” the Union Home Secretary told the committee. “On the one hand, some of our officers were found to be negligent in our preliminary inquiry. But the ration provided to BSF is sufficient,” he was quoted as saying in the report.
In its report, the committee said it did not get a satisfactory response with regard to food served to jawans.
