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"Filling the posts of deputy drug controller for all three places is in its last phase. "Out of 1,000 food samples sent to Bhopal lab every month, around 150 are from Indore division," senior food safety officer Manish Swami told TOI. Around a year ago, the district administration had allotted 40,000 square feet land in Talawali Chanda to the food and drug administration to develop the lab. INDORE: The state's dependency on a single laboratory in Bhopal is likely to reduce in a couple of years as the food and drug administration has approached the Centre and state government to sanction funds for three new food and drug laboratories. "We have sent proposals to the Centre and state government to sanction Rs 12 crore each to establish laboratories in Indore, Jabalpur and Gwalior ," joint controller, food and drug administration, Pramod Shukla told TOI..