Centre unveils another draft of Pesticide Management Bill

Might implicate farmers for violation, absolves inspectors from wrongdoing

The Centre has released a new draft Pesticide Management Bill 2017 to replace an almost 50-year old legislation governing the plant chemicals sector. 
 

But, industry players and experts said it is not a big improvement from a similar draft Presented in Parliament in 2008 and does not address the core issues of applying penal provisions on companies marketing pesticides and not just manufacturing them and somewhat absolves the pesticide inspector from guilt but could end up implicating farmers also for violation of the rules made under the Act.

The draft which comes almost nine years after a similar Bill was introduced