{"id":177193,"date":"1998-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-12-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/requests-the-central-government-to-take-punitive-measures-fixing-on-18-december-1998"},"modified":"2016-12-13T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T08:23:47","slug":"requests-the-central-government-to-take-punitive-measures-fixing-on-18-december-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/requests-the-central-government-to-take-punitive-measures-fixing-on-18-december-1998","title":{"rendered":"Requests The Central Government To Take Punitive Measures Fixing &#8230; on 18 December, 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Requests The Central Government To Take Punitive Measures Fixing &#8230; on 18 December, 1998<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title\">Title<\/a>: Requests the Central Government to take  punitive measures fixing responsibility on the officials failed to clear onion  within 24 hours at Mumbai Port.\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRI%20N.T.%20SHANMUGAM%20%2A\">SHRI N.T. SHANMUGAM *<\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=VELLORE\">VELLORE<\/a>): Hon&#8217;ble Chairman, Sir, I would like to recall  the incident of causing huge wastage of onion on 15.11.98 at Mumbai Port. In  order to overcome the onion shortfall and to challenge the price rise the  Government imported a huge consignment of onion from Iran. But the onion that  reached Mumbai Port was not cleared in time and got perished. On 21.11.98 the  perished onion was thrown away. Thus the irresponsible handling of a pershable  commodity which ought to have been cleared from the port within 24 hours caused  a heavy loss to the Government. A considerable amount of tax payers&#8217; money has  gone waste. This disabled the Government to control the onion price thereby  affecting countless poor of the country. This had a political fall-out. At least  two of the ruling parties had to pay a heavy price losing their Government in  the recently concluded elections to certain State Legislative Assemblies.  Normally perishable commodities ought to have been cleared within 24 hours if  not they ought to have been auctioned and money should have been paid to the  exchequer. Hence I urge upon the Government to take suitable punitive measures  fixing responsibility on the official who failed to act in time <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;\n<\/p>\n<p>*Original in Tamil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Requests The Central Government To Take Punitive Measures Fixing &#8230; on 18 December, 1998 Title: Requests the Central Government to take punitive measures fixing responsibility on the officials failed to clear onion within 24 hours at Mumbai Port. SHRI N.T. SHANMUGAM *(VELLORE): Hon&#8217;ble Chairman, Sir, I would like to recall the incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Requests The Central Government To Take Punitive Measures Fixing ... on 18 December, 1998 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/requests-the-central-government-to-take-punitive-measures-fixing-on-18-december-1998\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Requests The Central Government To Take Punitive Measures Fixing ... on 18 December, 1998 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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