Three Months On, India's Single-Use Plastic Ban A Dud By Tanvi Deshpande| 2 Oct, 2022
Banned plastic including straws, cutlery found in circulation in Mumbai and Delhi. Experts call the ban weak and ask that big players, that produce more plastic, and more plastic items be brought under the ban's ambit
Of the total plastic generated, the share of the now-banned single-use plastic--at, as we said, 2-3%--is minuscule. Thus, even if the ban had worked well, the impact on plastic waste generation would be negligible.
In 2020-21, India generated nearly 3.5 million tonnes of plastic, as per details provided by 35 states and Union territories. Maharashtra forms 13% of this, followed by Tamil Nadu (12%) and Punjab (12%). Meanwhile, India's recycling capacity, at 1.56 million tonnes per annum, is only half of the total plastic generated. Brands are expected to recycle around 800,000 tonnes per annum as part of their Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
India Wants Manufacturers To Manage Plastic Waste. Here’s How Proposed Rules Fall Short By Bhasker Tripathi| 5 Oct, 2020 https://www.indiaspend.com/india-wants-manufacturers-to-manage-plastic-waste-heres-how-proposed-rules-fall-short/ The draft rules offer three options to producers: pay a fee into a central corpus that would be spent towards managing the waste; buy credits from a system that would be established to offset the plastic waste they generate; or participate in and pay for establishing producer responsibility organisations (PROs) to collect and manage post-consumer plastic waste...
Industry experts who have studied the draft say the rules do not hold producers responsible, rather offer them ways to evade responsibility. By failing to put curbs on overproduction, the draft fails to emphasise waste minimisation and also provides no clarity on how these models will work.
One of the biggest reasons for India's plastic crisis is that the country's plastic industry uses different tactics to distract, delay, dilute and derail progressive legislations on plastic control that are unfavourable to them, according to an addendum to the September 2020 global report, Talking Trash: The Corporate Playbook of False Solutions to the Plastic Crisis. https://talking-trash.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TalkingTrash_FullReport.pdf
The India-segment of this report was researched and written by Shah, quoted earlier.
No asbestos mine functional in India but trade, manufacture and use of asbestos yet to be stopped Saturday, October 1, 2022 http://www.asbestosfreeindia.org/2022/10/no-asbestos-mine-functional-in-india.html In answer to Sangamlal Gupta and P.P. Chaudhary on “Ban on Asbestos Mines”, Pralhad Joshi, minister of coal and mines said " no asbestos mine functional in India because of the harmful effect of asbestos" . Yet, 25 per cent of the entire asbestos produced globally comes to India because India is yet to ban trade, manufacture and use of all kinds of asbestos .
India imported asbestos to the tune of 3,61,164 tonnes in 2019-20. It was 3,64,105 tonnes in the previous year.
According to World Health Organisation (WHO), 250, 000 are dying annually because of asbestos related diseases.
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The Emergency Then: Life in Jail https://www.newsclick.in/emergency-then-life-jail Prabir Purkayastha 25 Jun 2022
The author, a student in JNU during Mrs Gandhi’s Emergency, was jailed under MISA. In this extract from a longer work on resisting political emergencies, he remembers life in jail in 1975.
The Rise of the Mauryan Empire *Ashoka the GREAT* Kings & Generals 13 March 2022 https://m.facebook.com/KingsGenerals/videos/538743200808733/
Bangladeshi national contested 2021 assembly seat for TMC, finds Calcutta HC https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/kolkata-news/bangladeshi-national-contested-2021-assembly-seat-for-tmc-finds-calcutta-hc-101653104404572.html
An inquiry ordered by the Calcutta high court found TMC candidate Alo Rani Sarkar to be a Bangladeshi national by virtue of birth.
Sarkar’s lawyers claimed in court that though born in Bengal’s Hooghly district in 1969 she became a Bangladeshi citizen after her marriage to Dr Harendra Nath Sarkar in 1980 but she has left him because of matrimonial discord and returned to India.
The lawyers said she enrolled her name in the electoral roll of Bangladesh in 2012 “out of mistake” and it came to her notice in 2020 when she requested the Election Commission secretariat at Dhaka to delete it.
justice Bibek Chaudhuri rules “Even if the petitioner has voter identity card, Aadhar card and passport, the said documents do not prove her citizenship of this country.
the petitioner has claimed to be the citizen of this country by birth. But from the inquiry report which she relies in her written objection against the application under Order VII Rule 11(d) of the CPC it is ascertained that her parents used to live in Bangladesh and she came to India with her uncle in her childhood, meaning thereby that the petitioner was born in Bangladesh,”
Alo Rani Sarkar; says: I was born in 1969 in this country. Our family moved to Baidyabati in the Hooghly district in 1971. We have ancestral property in Bangladesh,” - https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ruled-bangladeshi-by-calcutta-hc-tmc-s-alo-rani-sarkar-says-i-was-born-in-101653193051851.html
Manohar Lal Khattar Interview extract on Khap https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/interview-no-impact-of-farmers-agitation-on-polls-worshipping-should-not-become-a-show-of-strength-haryana-cm/ar-AATwdGq
Khaps are often in the news in Haryana for wrong reasons like ‘honour killings’, infanticide, inter-caste marriages, etc. Betraying a sympathetic view of Khaps, the chief minister said: “Khaps have been the guardians of society since long and that marrying in the same gotra was considered immoral. So to maintain that purity and discourage immoral activities, Khaps come into existence. Individuality in society takes us away from morality.” He emphasised, “It’s wrong to say that Khaps do not do positive things. Khaps are a very powerful community. They stood with the farmers in their protests. Power lies in their collective approach.”
With a glaring gap in its sex ratio, Haryana is forced to ‘import’ brides from neighbouring states. “That’s not in our control,” the chief minister said. And what about infanticide? “In last two years the ratio has fallen to around 912, COVID-19 may be a reason too, we haven't been able to concentrate on this side.” On action being taken, he informed, “Around 300 FIRs have been registered against people who have indulged in infanticide. We have decided on a target of 950 in the next two years.” Sex ratio has touched 923 in Haryana, as per reports.
NRC पर रोक लग गई, संसद में बड़ा एलान, Amit Shah ने हथियार डाल दिए! Dec 1, 2021
A tactic much like the 3 Black Laws. During the agitation or when the issue is live, the effort is to ensure that the mal-effects of a policy do not become apparent. At the same time, the democeles sword of the new policy is always there..