class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on February 19, 2019, has published the Bio-Medical Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2019 to amend Rule 4 of Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016.
The amendment in the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 are as under:
In Rule 4 which specifies the Duties of the occupier:
· For clause (n), the following clause, shall be substituted, namely:
“(n) ,in case of all bedded health care units, maintain and update on day to day basis the bio-medical waste management register and display the monthly record on its website according to the bio-medical waste generated in terms of category and colour coding as specified in Schedule I;”;
· For clause (p), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:
“(p) ,in case of all bedded health care facilities (any number of beds), make available the annual report on its web-site within a period of two years from the date of publication of the Bio-Medical Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2018;”.
[Notification No. G.S.R. 129(E)]
URL: http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/198301.pd
