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FDA commissioner Seema Vyas shunted out; shifted to disaster management
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Saturday, 27 August, 2011, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Irum Khan, Mumbai
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Seema Vyas, commissioner of food and drug administration (FDA) and food safety, Maharashtra, has been transferred as the director of Disaster Management Authority. Vyas was among one of the nine officials who have been given transfer orders in a major bureaucratic reshuffle that took place on Thursday.
Vyas, an IAS officer of the 1992 batch, had taken over the charge as FDA commissioner in May last year.
Though speculation is rife over the reason for the transfer, FDA officials are vouching for her work as FDA commissioner. An officer said that she was one of the outstanding commissioners that FDA ever had in the last 22 years. He said that Vyas deserved to be credited for her contribution to the implementation of the new Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, in Maharashtra, proactively, so much so that the state turned out to be a model for the rest of the states to emulate.
"She studied the Act within a short period of time, and was active in convincing the regulatory authorities that Maharashtra needed an adjudicating officer from the FDA itself and an outsider need not be appointed," said the official.
When contacted, Vyas confirmed about her transfer and said that the Administration would be taken care of by her subordinates for the time being.
Another officer M Mhaisker, medical education and drugs secretary, has been replaced by I S Chahal, an IAS officer of the 1989 batch.
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