The Ministry of Environmental, Forest and climate change vide its notification dated 19th March 2020 has published the Solid Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2020.
The Amended rule is now made applicable to every village where the population is more than 3000 and the duties of local authorities is mentioned under section 15 have been amended as follows:
The Local Authorities shall collect and transport bio-degradable, non-bio-degradable and domestic hazardous waste from households including slums and informal settlements, commercial, institutional and other non-residential premises, multi-story buildings, large commercial complexes, malls, housing complexes and the like in compartmentalized and covered vehicle to the respective processing facility.
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