The First Central Executive Committee Meeting of DRUGS CONTROL OFFICERS (1) WELFARE ASSOCIATION  (DCOIEA) was held on 12th November 2022 at Cygnett Hotel, at the Pink City Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Pukhraj Sen IAS, Commissioner, Food Safety & Drugs Control Department, Govt. of Rajasthan was Chief Guest and Manikandan IAS (Farmer Drugs Inspector, Tamil Nadu) Agra District, Development Officer was attended as Guest of Honour for the occasion.

Ajay Phatak, Drugs Controller, Rajasthan, Kanchan Sinha, Drugs Controller, Tripura, Lalit Goel, Rakesh Dahiya (Founder members of DCOIWA), and several retired Drugs Controllers from Rajasthan were among the invites present during the session.

The event was started after paying homage to the departed souls of the Late Smt. Neha Shourie, Zonal Licensing Authority, Punjab, Late Smt. Pallavi Koteshwar Rao, Deputy Drugs Controller Telangana. Late Sri Sudeep Ganguly, Drugs Inspector, West Bengal, Late Sri Rampal, Drugs Control Office, Rajasthan, and Late Sri Dhanpal Drugs Inspector Tamil Nadu.

Baldev Chaudhary, General Secretary, DCOIWA from Rajasthan who organized the entire event has welcomed the members and dignitaries.

G. Koteshwar Rao, President, DCOIWA explained the event of consequences taken place in the last 3 years as DCO (I) Drugs Control Forum and its registration as DCO (1) Welfare Association under the leadership of Lalit Goyal, FDA Haryana and Rakesh Dahiya, FDA Haryana.

The executive committee has approved the appointment of the following additional EC members

- 1. Larap TD Toy (Meghalaya) Vice President

- 2. Venkatesh Sinare, Goa, Vice President

- 3. Garima Sharma, H.P. Vice President

- 4. Pooran Chand, UP, Jt. Secretary

- 5. Dr. Mrinal Kanti Sarkar, Tripura, Jt. Secretary

- 6. Dipika Chauhan, Gujarat, Jt. Secretary

- 7. Amit Kumar Bansal, UP, Organizing Secretary

- 8. Rajkumar v Zadbuke, Maharastra, EC Member

- 9. Ashutosh Kumar Chaube, UP, EC Member

- 10. Dr. R. Mahalakshmy, Kerala, EC Member

- 11. Dr. Zaffer Ahmad, J & K, EC Member

- 12. Neeraj Kumar, Uttarakhand, EC Member

- 13. Kanchan Sinha, Tripura, EC Member

- 14. Ibom Ete (Arunachal Pradesh) EC Member

Further, the EC board approved the appointment of the following committee board members under the chairman Ship of G. Koteshwar Rao, President, DCOIWA.

Advisory Board

- Manikandan IAS (UP)

- Jyoti J. Sardesai (Goa)

- Dr. P.V. Appaji (Telangana)

- Lotika Khazuria (J&K)

- Lalit Kr. Goel (Haryana)

- Rakesh Dahiya (Haryana)

- Dr. Adhiyaman (Tamilnadu)

Technical Committee

Navneet Marwaha, Drugs Controller, HP

D.R. Gahane, Drugs Controller, MH

Bogaraj T.Khanapure, Drugs Controller, KTK

Sanjiv Garg, Drugs Controller, Punjab

Tajber Singh, Drugs Controller, Uttarakhand

Rajender Hema, Chandigarh

Finance and Publicity Committee

- Rakesh Dahiya, Haryana

- N. Narsaiah, Telangana

- Garima Sharma, Himachal Pradesh

- Amandeep Chauwan, Haryana

- Rekha Sachan, Utter Pradesh

- Dr. M. Dhilip Kumar, Tamilnadu

- Ishwar Yadav, Rajasthan

- Sushanth Sharma, CDSCO

Legal Committee

- P.K. Jaggi (Ex. DC. Delhi)

- Manmohan Taneja (Drugs Controller, Haryana)

- G.L. Singal, (Haryana)

- Rajaram Sharma (Drugs Controller, Rajasthan)

- K R Chawla (Drugs Controller, Delhi)

- Dr. Manikandan IAS, Utter Pradesh

Training & Continuous educating committee

- Lalit Kr.  Goel, Haryana

- Kailash Malik, CDSCO

- Pradeep Mattu, Ex. SDC, Punjab)

- Rajender Herna (Chandigarh)

The committee decided to publish Diary for the year 2023 and fixed the date of the release of Diary 2023 on 1st Jan 2023 in Delhi.

The EC has approved to conduct of a workshop for walking officers from northeast states in the month of Dec. 2022 at Agartala, Tripura under the leadership of Kanchan Sinha, Drugs Controller, Tripura.

The Association developed the website www.dcoiwa.com and the same has been launched and inaugurated by Manikandan IAS, Agra Dist. Development Officer (Utter Pradesh)

The E.C. member has unanimously approved its members to strengthen the organization by getting more life memberships.

The E.C. Members have unanimously decided to accept affiliations from various state associations if the request receives.

The E.C. Members approved immediate financial assistance of Rs. 1 Lakh to Late. Dhanpat's Family. Copies of Byelaws were read and distributed among its members.

A Committee under the leadership of Lalit Kr. Goel is formed for creating of DCOIWA welfare trust.

More than 50 Drugs Control Officers from Rajasthan graced the occasion.

The event ended with a vote of thanks presented by Dr. Parmanand Verma, Treasurer, DCOIWA.

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