MHA TELLS PARL OFFICER NEGLECTED COMPLAINTS OVER POOR FOOD TO JAWAN

NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs (MHA) informed a parliamentary panel that some officers of the Border Security Force (BSF) were found to be “negligent” over complaints of poor quality food being served to jawans and action has been initiated against “some persons”. The admission, by the Union home secretary before the Committee on Estimates, headed by Murli Manohar Joshi, comes a year after BSF constable Tej Bahadur was sacked after a video of him complaining about sub-standard food being served to jawans went viral last year. The ministry’s response to the reports of substandard food being served to BSF personnel was incorporated at the committee’s report on ‘Central Armed Police Forces’ and Internal Security Challenges — Evaluation and Responses Mechanism’ which was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Monday.