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Recent Notification of the Ministry of Environment & Forests

Municipal Solid Wastes (Management, and Handling) Rules, 2000 New Delhi, the 25th September, 2000

S.O. 908(E). - Whereas the draft of the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management, and Handling) Rules, 1999 were published under the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests number S.O. 783(E), dated, the 27th September, 1999 in the Gazette of India, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) of the same date inviting objections and suggestions from the persons likely to be affected thereby, before the expiry of the period of sixty days from the date on which the copies of the Gazette containing the said notification are made available to the public;

And whereas copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on the 5th October, 1999;

And whereas the objections and suggestions received from the public in respect of the said draft rules have been duly considered by the Central Government;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3, 6 and 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to regulate the management and handling of the municipal solid wastes, namely:- 1. Short title and commencement, 2. Application, 3. Definitions, 4. Responsibility of municipal authority, 5. Responsibility of the State Government and the Union territory Administrations, 6. Responsibility of the Central Pollution Control Board and the State Board or the Committees, 7. Management of municipal solid wastes, 8. Annual Reports, 9. Accident Reporting.

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