The third edition of the State Food Safety Index ranked the states on five parameters of food safety, which included human Resources and institutional data (20% weightage), compliance (30%), food testing facility (20%), training and capacity building (10%) and consumer Empowerment (20%). The ranking is an effort of the Union Government to galvanize the states to work towards ensuring safe food for citizens.
The state has secured only 5 points each in human resources and institutional data and food testing facility, 2 in training and capacity building, 11 in compliance and 12 in consumer empowerment. The separate teams of experts for food testing and food & Nutrition professionals, in addition to Fssai officials, conducted the assessment and evaluation in each category. The teams examined the details received and also interacted with the states/UTs through web meetings.