Not another 'Quango' please.

"Bengaluru, India is setting standards in pharmaceuticals and like the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), we should aim to create Bharat Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for global standards and benchmarks, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed." ET. What use is an FDA if it takes instructions from politicians and has no fangs? Madam Minister may have forgotten how a restaurant owner in Tamil Nadu had to offer an abject apology to her for joking about the goods and services tax (GST) on food. All he said was, "Madam, a bun doesn't attract GST, but when cream is applied to make it a cream bun, it attracts 12% GST. Customers now say, 'You bring the bun and cream separately and I'll make the cream bun." "On 5 October 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that four cough medicines, made by the Haryana based manufacturer, Maiden Pharma, were suspected to have caused the deaths of 66 children in the West African nation, The Gambia," wrote Priyanka Pulla. Has anyone been prosecuted for the crime? In 2021, at the height of the Covid crisis, patients receiving remdesivir from a batch coded V100167 developed high fever. Some died. "It was manufactured by Gujarat-based firm Zydus Cadilla," wrote Pulla. Both Haryana and Gujarat have BJP governments. The US FDA relies on the Office of Criminal Investigations to investigate and prosecute any criminal action. wikipedia. India has the police, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) (wikipedia) or Crime Branch, Criminal Bureau of Investigation (CBI) (cbi.gov.in) and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) (wikipedia), all controlled by politicians, and all used to repress citizens. Criminals are free. "In the three years leading up to March 2023, Indian authorities tested 43 million food samples. Turns out, one in four did not conform to domestic food safety laws. Of these, one in every six were either 'unsafe' or 'substandard'." "But what they did not do is alert the consumer," wrote Sayantan Bera & Suneera Tandon. Unsafe products were not withdrawn from the market probably because it would cause losses to the companies. Let children die of food poisoning. The Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Madhabi Puri Buch brazenly refused to appear before the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to answer allegations of conflict of interest in investigating charges of stock market manipulation by the Adani Group. BS. In 2017, a Boston-based consultancy firm, CDM Smith admitted paying bribes totaling $1.18 million to NHAI officials between 2011 and 2015 and paid a fine of over $40 million in the US. TOI. India reacted with a big shrug. "There's corruption in the private sector meant to enrich businessmen and executives at the expense of their own companies and shareholders. There's corruption by civil servants who occupy positions in which they can delay, withhold or expedite decisions businessmen await. And there's political corruption that prevents the exercise of state power to stamp out corruption of other kinds," wrote TK Arun. So, no Bharat FDA stuffed with cronies getting fat salaries and perks. Please don't waste our hard-earned taxes. On a 'Quango'.