Government appoints 108 drug inspectors pan India; Details
New Delhi: Through a recent Gazette notification, the Central Government has apprised about the appointment of 108 Inspectors for the country for the purpose of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. The appointed Inspectors are authorised to exercise the powers and shall perform the duties as specified in sections 21 and 22 of the said Act and the Rules made thereunder.
Section 21 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 deals with the appointment of inspectors by a State Government or a Central Government and the powers possessed by the appointed inspectors.
Various powers as stated in Section 22 of the said Act includes inspection of drug manufacturing, selling, exhibiting and other such premises; take samples of any drug or cosmetic from any person who is in course of conveying, delivering or preparing to deliver such drug or cosmetic to a purchaser or a consignee.
The inspectors are further empowered to stop and search any vehicle, vessel or other conveyance which, he has reason to believe, is being used for carrying any drug or cosmetic in respect of which an offence under the chapter named Manufacture, Sale and Distribution of the said Act, has been or is being committed.
The list of 108 appointed inspectors for the whole of India reads;
| S. No. | Name |
| 1. | Sh. Sridhar Mittapallly |
| 2. | Dr. Bidya Dhar Sahu |
| 3. | Mrs. Kamla |
| 4. | Sh. Deepak Kumar Sethy |
| 5. | Sh. Venugopal R. |
| 6. | Sh. Devendra Pratap Singh |
| 7. | Sh. Vivek Gill |
| 8. | Sh. Ashish Chauhan |
| 9. | Sh. Satinder Pal Singh |
| 10. | Sh. Pushap Raj |
| 11. | Sh. Pramod Kumar |
| 12. | Sh. Yash Pal Singh |
| 13. | Sh. A. Suresh Pradhan |
| 14. | Sh. Vinod Kumar |
| 15. | Ms. Shalini Bhardwaj |
| 16. | Ms. Smirithi Sharma |
| 17. | Sh. Shriniwas Laxman Vasalwar |
| 18. | Sh. Rajesh Yadav |
| 19. | Sh. Manvendra Sanjay Teli |
| 20. | Dr. Chander Hass |
| 21. | Sh. Harish |
| 22. | Sh. Narender Kumar |
| 23. | Sh. Varun Kumar |
| 24. | Sh. Manish Kumar |
| 25. | Sh. Sakthivel P. |
| 26. | Ms. Neha Sharma |
| 27. | Ms. Suyogita Meghashyamrao Tajne |
| 28. | Sh. Deepak Dagar |
| 29. | Ms. Kusum Singh |
| 30. | Sh. Shashi Kant |
| 31. | Sh. Sudhir Kumar Singh |
| 32. | Ms. Purvika Mahajan |
| 33. | Sh. Ravendra Verma |
| 34. | Sh. Deepak Pandurang Nipunge |
| 35. | Sh. Rakesh Kumar |
| 36. | Sh. Sandeep Gill |
| 37. | Sh. Hemant Kumar |
| 38. | Shri Rakesh Sharma |
| 39. | Shri Umesh Chandra |
| 40. | Sh. Shoeb Bismilla Khan |
| 41. | Sh. Devagiri A. |
| 42. | Sh. Vishal Tatyasaheb Kachare |
| 43. | Sh. Sachinkumar Bhagawatrao Kapse |
| 44. | Dr. Manoj Nilkant Gambhire |
| 45. | Sh. Raghuvaran Gunda |
| 46. | Sh. Venumadhav Vurugonda |
| 47. | Sh. Prakash Kumar Parida |
| 48. | Sh. Asheesh Kaundal |
| 49. | Sh. Shivadev D. |
| 50. | Sh. Pranav Bajpayee |
| 51. | Ms. Heema Naik |
| 52. | Sh. Sushil Soni |
| 53. | Sh. Ekunkumar Tulshiram Chandekar |
| 54. | Sh. Gajanan Yadavrao Modhe |
| 55. | Sh. Rajan Kumar |
| 56. | Sh. Mahaveer Singh |
| 57. | Sh. Aatmaram Digamberrao Kale |
| 58. | Dr. Pranab Jyoti Das |
| 59. | Ms. Swamini Taran |
| 60. | Ms. Sunita Joshi |
| 61. | Sh. Manoj Kumar |
| 62. | Sh. Mohan Guguloth |
| 63. | Sh. Kumara Swamy Dornala |
| 64. | Sh. Naveen Reddy Kandimalla |
| 65. | Sh. Ranga Harish |
| 66. | Sh. Mahender Singh |
| 67. | Sh. Pradeep Kumar Jarajana |
| 68. | Sh. Satish Bhausaheb Sangale |
| 69. | Sh. Ranjeet Singh Patel |
| 70. | Sh. Anoop Singh Baghel |
| 71. | Sh. Shivraj Subhash Sulgudle |
| 72. | Sh. Deepanshu Manchanda |
| 73. | Sh. Rajesham Pambala |
| 74. | Ms. Sudha Sukumaran Nair |
| 75. | Sh. Santhanakrishnan V.S. |
| 76. | Sh. Sandeep Goswami |
| 77. | Sh. Pradeep Kumar |
| 78. | Sh. Koteswara Rao Thommandru |
| 79. | Sh. C. Hemanth Kumar |
| 80. | Sh. T.M. Chandrasekar |
| 81. | Sh. G. Nishanth |
| 82. | Sh. Jeetendra Yadav |
| 83. | Sh. Chinmaykumar Hasmukhlal Patel |
| 84. | Sh. Kamlesh Kumar |
| 85. | Sh. Ankush Gupta |
| 86. | Sh. B. Siva Kumar Reddy |
| 87. | Sh. Vijayendra Chary A. |
| 88. | Sh. Dinesh |
| 89. | Sh. Arun Kumar Mattapali |
| 90. | Sh. Lokesh Choure |
| 91. | Sh. Kalicharan |
| 92. | Sh. Sreekanth Kollipara |
| 93. | Sh. Krishanu Burman |
| 94. | Sh. Vijay Duppala |
| 95. | Ms. Priya Pandey |
| 96. | Sh. Vikram Mengana |
| 97. | Sh. Sangram Vurumadla |
| 98. | Sh. Pardeep Dahiya |
| 99. | Sh. Swapnil Ramesh Patil |
| 100. | Sh. Ashutosh Kumar |
| 101. | Sh. Dev Kumar |
| 102. | Sh. Mahesh Kumar Saini |
| 103. | Sh. Debashish Nayak |
| 104. | Sh. Mukesh Kumar Bairwa |
| 105. | Sh. Dhayalamurthi Siva |
| 106. | Sh. Abhishek Shankarrao Chawardol |
| 107. | Dr. C. Saravanan |
| 108. | Sh. Raghuram Deekonda |
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