In order to check hoarding and profiteering and other mal-practices in the open market, the Department is vigorously enforcing various control/acts and exercising strict vigil on the track to ensure that no undue price rise takes place in the State. To ensure the availability of essential commodities at reasonable rates, the following actions were taken by the Department Officers/Officials as inspection targets detail given below:

1.Distt. Controller..............………25 per month

2.Food & Supplies Officer …….....30 per month

3.Inspector.…………………............37 per month

The position with regards to the inspections/checking during the period upto 01-04-2020 to 31-12-2020 is as under:

No. of Inspections......................................31,914
Cases registered........................................Nil        
Departmental action ..................................1,560                                    
Written Warning Issued...............................458
Amount of security forfeited..................Rs. 7,73,081

Amount of goods confiscated in money terms into the State exchequer....Rs. 41,21,725