The Tukaram Effect: How One Officer Shook Up Maharashtra's Food Industry

From time-to-time society shrugs to rid itself of accumulated grit that tend to choke up its systems. But more often than not the required shrug comes at the behest of a maverick individual unafraid of upsetting the apple cart of status quo. In recent times such an individual has struck at the heart of a very basic malaise that dogs society - the lack of hygiene and its inversely proportional abundance of adulterated food that is so openly sold in the market. Tukaram H Mundhe, the new Commissioner of FDA in Maharashtra is the crusader who is cleaning up the food business, particularly in Mumbai. High handed or justified action, the jury is out on that, but on the ground, there is newfound vigour, amongst those in the food business, to maintain hygiene lest they run afoul of the FDA inspectors. This is NDTV Focus on THE TUKARAM EFFECT that has taken Mumbai and Maharashtra by storm...and even prompted other agencies around the country to try and clamp down on adulteration and misleading promotions at least where edible products are concerned.