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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Take a call on banning 18 pesticides, SC directs Centre -Jayashree Nandi

Take a call on banning 18 pesticides, SC directs Centre -Jayashree Nandi

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published Published on Apr 24, 2018   modified Modified on Apr 24, 2018
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has recently directed the Centre to take a decision on banning 18 pesticides within the next two months. Most of these have been banned in other parts of the world because of their health and ecological impacts. SC has also said that if a decision is taken to ban a particular pesticide, then the ban be implemented within 15 days.

Farmers groups, public health experts and safe food activists had submitted to SC that there has already been an “inordinate delay” in phasing out toxic pesticides which was taking a toll on farmers’ health. Petitioners in a PIL filed last year—Kavitha Kuruganti, Ananthoo and Amar Singh Azad issued a statement highlighting how the agriculture ministry was delaying the process of phasing out dangerous pesticides by constituting multiple committees and not implementing its own draft notification on banning 12 pesticides with effect from January 1, 2018 and six others from January 1, 2021.

In November 2017, following reports of pesticide poisoning and death of more than 40 farmers in Maharashtra, Kavitha and two others had petitioned the SC to ban 99 pesticides that had been banned or restricted in other countries. A committee headed by Anupam Verma, a retired professor from Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) was constituted by the Agriculture Ministry in August 2013 to review only 66 such pesticides. The Committee had recommended in 2015 that 12 pesticides be banned and 6 more phased out. The agriculture ministry had subsequently issued a draft notification in December 2016 on banning the pesticides recommended by the Anupam Verma committee. But after receiving comments and suggestions to the draft notification, the ministry constituted another committee headed by JS Sandhu of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) to look in to the suggestions and form an opinion on banning these pesticides. The petitioners however had informed SC that the government should consider banning 99 pesticides that were considered toxic globally. SC had asked the petitioners to submit their representations to the Sandhu committee.

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The Times of India, 22 April, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/take-a-call-on-banning-18-pesticides-sc-directs-centre/articleshow/63871518.cms


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