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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Delhi government slaps ban on all gutka products -Naziya Alvi & Durgesh Nandan Jha

Delhi government slaps ban on all gutka products -Naziya Alvi & Durgesh Nandan Jha

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published Published on Sep 11, 2012   modified Modified on Sep 11, 2012
-The Times of India

Putting health over revenue, the Delhi government on Monday announced a ban on all gutka products in the capital. The ban, which includes sale, manufacture, distribution, transportation, display and storage of these products, is expected to take effect in a day or two.

The ban will cover pan masalas containing tobacco and other packaged chewing tobacco products.

"Our government was always in favour of putting a ban on gutka and has finally achieved it. The ban will come into effect as soon as a notification to this effect is issued," said Delhi health minister A K Walia.

The government is expected to lose around Rs 40 crore in revenue due to the ban, finance department officials told a news agency. Following a notification, food safety department teams will start conducting raids to implement the ban on gutka products. Those found guilty can face rigorous imprisonment up to six months or fine up to Rs 3 lakh, or both. Around nine teams will conduct the raids, expected to begin by the weekend.Health organizations, doctors and NGOs welcomed the decision.

Dr Anshuman Kumar, a surgeon at Dharmshila Cancer Institute said that banning the sale and production of gutka was necessary to save lives of thousands of people. He said 30% of all cancer cases were caused due to tobacco consumption.On August 22, the Delhi High Court had asked the city government to examine and decide in two weeks on a plea to ban the sale of chewing tobacco products in the capital. The direction had come on a plea filed by Doctors for You, a registered society that had cited a media report where the Delhi health minister had suggested such a ban.

The decision to announce a blanket ban was taken soon after a meeting chaired by Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit at the Delhi Secretariat. It was attended by health minister A K Walia and principal health secretary Anshu Prakash."Delhi government feels that the ban had become necessary to overcome health hazards.

Delhi government has taken such a decision without bothering about huge loss to the exchequer on enforcing the ban on such products," said the government's official release.Under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, the Centre framed a regulation in 2011 empowering the state's food safety commissioner to ban tobacco products. According to the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales) Regulations Act, 2011, gutka and other forms of chewing tobacco products such as zarda, pan masala, gul and bajjar, which are toxic and addictive, should be banned from being sold in states. 

The Times of India, 11 September, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhi-government-slaps-ban-on-all-gutka-products/articleshow/16345567.cms


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