Prohibition of Imports and Exports of Hazardous Waste - CBEC SUPPRESSES a Notification
GOVERNMENT has prohibited import and export of hazardous wastes specified in Scheduled VI to the Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008, issued under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), save as otherwise provided under the said Act and the rules made thereunder ,
The notification reads as, “I n exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 11 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), and in suppression of the notification No. 35/2004-CUSTOMS (N.T.), dated 19.3.2004, published in the Gazette of India Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide G.S.R. 201(E) dated 19 th March 2004, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such suppression, the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary so to do for the purpose of the protection of human, animal, plant life and health, hereby prohibits import into India and export out of India of hazardous wastes specified in Scheduled VI to the Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008, issued under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), save as otherwise provided under the said Act and the rules made thereunder, ”
An alert Netizen has already asked in our Message Board as to what this suppression is all about.
What they meant was supersession and it is a typographical error, no doubt. But the moot point is, why nobody checks these errors. DDT has been championing the cause of appointing an English teacher in the Board to correct their spellings – but our super babus believe that they are also commanders of language over which they obviously have no command. And this notification ends with a comma!!.
The tragedy with the Board is that the Under Secretary who prepares the notification is the final authority – nobody else reads that notification and so nobody corrects it. This mistake would not have happened if somebody else had also read the notification. An Under-Secretary once told DDT that he is scared as he is the Law Maker of India and his bosses have neither the time nor the inclination to read the notifications he prepares.
They should stop all the silly exercises like cadre review and merger of excise and Service Tax and on top priority recruit a few English Teachers from reputed private schools where notebooks are corrected by teachers.
Notification No. , Dated: April 4, 2012