3 months on, Commissioner's post in FDA lying vacant in J&K: RTI activist

The position of commissioner in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been lying vacant since the retirement of Hashmat Ali Yauto in February, an RTI activist said on Saturday, questioning the delay in filling the vacancy.

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Jammu-based RTI activist Raman Kumar Sharma had filed two applications in April with the health and medical education department using Jammu and Kashmir government’s RTI portal, asking who had been appointed to the post of commissioner after Yauto's retirement and reason for the delay in appointing a new officer in his place.