Summary: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), through Notification No. RCD-15001/4/2021-Regulatory-FSSAI-part(1) dated 2 September 2026, has amended its principal notification dated 2 September 2021 to notify additional officers as Central Food Safety Officers (CFSOs). The notification has been issued in exercise of powers under Sub-Section 5 of Section 10 read with Section 37 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
The amendment inserts new entries in the existing table after Serial No. 78. The notified officers have been assigned to the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Regions, with their areas of jurisdiction covering the respective States/Union Territories under those regions. The entries include Ms Palleboina Mounika and several other officers for the Eastern Region; officers including Ms Parvatam Ravali, Ms Boddu Gayathri, Sh. Rahul Jain and others for the Northern Region; a substantial number of officers for the Southern Region; and officers including Shridhar Sameta, Sh. Pratik Shelke, Sh. Shivkumar Palimkar and others for the Western Region.
The notification further records that the principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 dated 2 September 2021 and was last amended through notification F. No. RCD-15001/4/2021-Regulatory-FSSAI-part(1) dated 6 April 2026. TaxGuru has published the earlier 2021 principal notification and the 6 April 2026 amendment concerning Central Food Safety Officers. FSSAI principal notification dated 2 September 2021 FSSAI amendment dated 6 April 2026
FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 2nd September, 2026
F. No. RCD-15001/4/2021-Regulatory-FSSAI-part(1).— In exercise of the powers conferred under Sub-Section 5 of Section 10 read with Section 37 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006), the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India hereby notifies the following officers as Central Food Safety Officers for the area mentioned against each with effect from the date of publication of this notification by amending the principal notification, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 dated the 2nd September, 2021:-
In the table; after Sr. no. 78, the following entries shall be inserted in the respective columns namely;-
| Sr. No. | Name of CFSOs | Place of Posting | Area of Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79. | Ms Palleboina Mounika | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 80. | Ms Parvatam Ravali | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 81. | Ms Boddu Gayathri | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 82. | Ms Tage Ani | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 83. | Ms Sumi Barman | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 84. | Ms Sayani Chakraborty | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 85. | Sh. Debi Prasad Sahoo | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 86. | Sh. Basil Hyder PB | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 87. | Sh. Neli Ashihrii Ekhe | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 88. | Sh. Kamsen Khutiya | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 89. | Sh. Shubhankar Moni | Eastern Region | States/UTs under Eastern Region |
| 90. | Sh. Rahul Jain | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 91. | Sh. Thiruvayipati Satya Prakash | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 92. | Sh. Lekhraj Meena | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 93. | Sh. Suyash Kumar Tak | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 94. | Ms. L. Hruyia | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 95. | Sh. Gurpreet Singh | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 96. | Ms. Varsha S | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 97. | Sh. Gadi Sri Harsha Vardhan | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 100. | Sh. Shailesh Kr Singh | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 101. | Sh. Abhishek Gupta | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 102. | Ms. Suman | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 103. | Ms. Sukhmani Singh | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 104. | Sh. Abhishek Gupta | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 105. | Sh. Najif Akram | Northern Region | States/UTs under Northern Region |
| 106. | Sh. Anand Chetter | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 107. | Sh. Manu H. A. | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 108. | Ms. S. Krithika | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 109. | Sh. N. Venkateswarareddy | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 110. | Sh. T. Ragunath | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 111. | Sh. Fairooz Jazack T K | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 112. | Sh. M. Praveen Raja | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 112. | Dr. Urmila Unnikrishnan | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 113. | Ms. S. Supriya | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 114. | Dr. G. Sarath Chandra | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 115. | Sh. S. Surendran | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 116. | Ms. K. Preetha | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 117. | Dr. Divya Suresh | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 118. | Ms. Gomathi Padma Priya P | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 119. | Sh. Eshwar Naik Ramavathu | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 120. | K Sai Shiva | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 121. | Sh. Sandip Prasad | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 122. | Ms. Pankhuree Singh | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 123. | Sh. Sooraj Surendran N | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 124. | Dr. Hari Sankar S.S. | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 125. | Ms. Bokka Sravanthi | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 126. | Ms. Anjali V | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 127. | Ms. Shravya G N | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 128. | Ms. Maddisetti Durga Devi | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 129. | Sh. Arun S Kumar | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 130. | Ms. Divya V | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 131. | Sh. Vairalingam C | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 132. | Ms. Aathishree KK | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 133. | Sh. Vishnu Suresh | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 134. | Ms. Mahalakshmi M | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 135. | Sh. Barma Vath Deepak | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 136. | Ms. Archana P | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 137. | Ms. Nivetha. S | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 138. | Ms. Roshny R S | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 139. | Sh. Arul Murugan | Southern Region | States/UTs under Southern Region |
| 140. | Shridhar Sameta | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 141. | Sh. Pratik Shelke | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 142. | Sh. Shivkumar Palimkar | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 143. | Sh. Amol Dagadkhair | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 144. | Sh. Aman Shaikh Kwaja | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 145. | Sh. Mukesh Gite | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 146. | Sh. Ashish Nalinde | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 147. | Sh. Joseph Amruthraj | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 148. | Sh. Vikas Kanke | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 149. | Sh. Deepak Mahajan | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 150. | Ms. Tejas Muthal (Deokar) | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 151. | Sh. Sangappa Arjun Teli | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 152. | Ms. G. Dharani Sri | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 153. | Sh. Shikhar Dungarwal | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 154. | Sh. Moh. Salman Chukkan | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 155. | Dr. Harshala Patil | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 156. | Sh. Jankiram Bapurao Kadam | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 157. | Ms. Shraddha Srinivasan | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 158. | Sh. Bharat Gunasekaran | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 159. | Ms. Sukitha A | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 160. | Ms. Rucha Salelkar | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 161. | Dr. Rajkumar Andhale | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 162. | Sh. Vishnu A S | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 163. | Sh. Harish Bandu Bhalerao | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 164. | Sh. Sanjay Govindrao Deshmukh | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 165. | Sh. Dada Nana Vishwase | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 166. | Sh. Abhijeet Jadhav | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 167. | Sh. Prashant Doni | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 168. | Ms Firddaus Jahan | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 169. | Sh. Rohit Shinde Prakash | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 170. | Sh. Vinay Kashyap | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 171. | Sh. Praveen P U | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 172. | Ms. Rithika G | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 173. | Sh. Sandip Janardan Mandlik | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 174. | Ms. Suriya R. | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
| 175. | Ms. Hema J M | Western Region | States/UTs under Western Region |
RAJIT PUNHANI, Chief Executive Officer
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./309/2026-27]
Note: The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 vide F. No. RCD-15001/4/2021-Regulatory-FSSAI, dated the 2nd September, 2021 and last amended vide notification F. No. RCD-15001/4/2021-Regulatory-FSSAI-part(1) dated 6th April, 2026.
