Minister seeks transfer of related departments

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, NOV. 6. The Ministry of Food Processing Industries has taken the initiative to streamline its operations and bring under its purview some related departments such as the commodity boards and the Agricultural and Processed Food Export Development Authority (APEDA) from the Commerce Ministry.

It has approached the Prime Minister to transfer to itself departments related to processing and agricultural commodities export promotion to ensure better functioning of interrelated areas and eliminate overlapping.

According to the Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries, Mr. Chaman Lal Gupta, the performance of this sector was affected because production, processing and exports were under the control of different Ministries. Mr. Gupta, who addressed a PHD Chamber of Commerce seminar on ``Strategy to Promote Export of Processed Food from North India'', said boards for tea, coffee, coconut and spices and the APEDA should be directly under the charge of his Ministry.

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