Summary:
Minister of state for food and drugs administration Madan Yerawar announced the information to this effect in the state assembly on Friday. Nagpur: Even as the ban on tobacco products like gutkha and scented betel nuts were about to end, the state government was quick to extend it for another year. Yerawar said that FDA was strictly monitoring the sale of gutkha in the state. Deshmukh also demanded that kharra, which is a mixture of tobacco and areca nut prepared by pan kiosks, should be banned. “I will ask the chief minister to take action against them,” he said..