Directorate General Of Supplies And Disposals

Food safety regulator FSSAI has ordered licensed food manufacturers and importers to submit quarterly data on rejected and expired food items through its online compliance system FOSCOS to prevent their resale for human consumption. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) directive, issued on December 16, also applies to repackers and relabellers. The new reporting requirements cover three key areas: quantity of products failing internal quality testing or inspection; volume of expired or returned products from the food supply chain; and detailed records of product disposal, including destruction, auction, or alternative use, with specific buyer and waste disposal agency information. The move is aimed at preventing rebranding and resale of expired and rejected food items for human consumption under the guise of cattle feed. This initiative will enable real-time tracking of rejected or expired goods and their subsequent disposal or auction for non-human consumption

The commerce ministry closed down its nearly 100-year-old public procurement arm -- the Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) -- on October 31, a senior official said. The closure of the DGS&D, which traces its origin to London during the British raj, follows setting up of the government e-market (GeM) platform last year for public procurement of goods and services. "We closed all the operations of the directorate on October 31. It was replaced with a much transparent GeM platform," the ministry official said. About 1,100 of its employees are being shifted to different departments, including income tax, while the senior officers are likely to be accommodated in other branches of the government. DGS&D assets, which were present across the country, are transfered to the Land and Development Office of the urban development ministry. The directorate has four regional offices, including Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. It has 12 Purchase Directorates .

The commerce ministry has started the process of shutting down over 100-year-old government procurement arm - Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D)- in this fiscal, a senior official said. The public procurement of goods and services is being managed by the ministry's e-market platform (GeM) since last year. Before closing, the ministry has to decide upon the issues concerning manpower, land and office spaces of the directorate, which are present all over the country. "We are closing DGS&D. We would close it in this fiscal only...It is more than 100-year-old organisation," the ministry official, who did not wish to be named, said. Currently, the directorate has four regional offices including Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. It has 12 Purchase Directorates (Commodity-wise) at its headquarters here. Besides, there are 20 offices /sub centres and the staff strength is over 1,200. DGS&D has its origin in the India Stores Department, which was established in ..