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use of banned pesticides, court tells government
Thursday December 08, 2011 09:46:40 PM,
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New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court Thursday directed the central and Delhi governments to
finalise steps within two months to prevent the rampant use of
banned pesticides in vegetables and fruits that poses health
threat to people.
The division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv
Shakdhar asked various central and state government authorities to
hold meetings and come out with a solution to the problem.
The bench asked the Delhi government's health secretary and Delhi
Agricultural Marketing Board (DAMB) officials, and senior
officials of the union agriculture and health ministries to
convene a meeting and submit the report before Feb 23, 2012, the
next date of hearing.
The order of the court came after it took suo motu cognizance of a
media report alleging rampant use of banned pesticides in
vegetables and fruits.
During examination of an NGO's survey report, it was found that 35
varieties of vegetables and fruits, picked up by it from city
markets and tested for pesticide content, were having various
intoxicants beyond permissible limits.
The report by NGO Consumer Voice said that the amount of
pesticides used by farmers in India was as much as 750 times
higher than the European standards.
The court earlier formed a panel of lawyers to get examined the
pesticide content in various vegetables samples at laboratories.
The panel has so far examined over 10 types of vegetables.
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