02
October
2015
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21:04
Asia/Singapore

India's food safety crisis indicative of bureaucratic failures

Prof Asit K Biswas and Mr Kris Hartley from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS discussed food safety in India, and proposed solutions such as more effective appropriation of resources to regulatory units, institutional strengthening and capacity building, tighter strategic and operational coordination among agencies, and the maintenance of a balance-of-powers system in which one government body calls out other government bodies for incompetence.