| | |   | The Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 |
| | | As per the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 notified under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, the occupier in relation to any institution generating bio-medical waste which includes a hospital, nursing home, clinic, dispensary, veterinary institution, animal house, pathological laboratory, blood bank by whatever name called; as well as an operator of a facility for the collection, reception, storage, transport, treatment, disposal etc, should apply in Form I and obtain authorisation of the Board, within notified time schedule. The statistics pertaining to action taken on authorisation applications under the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 is as follow: | | | Sr. | Particulars | During the year
2008 - 09 | During the year
2009 - 10 | Cumulative
(up to 31.3.2010) |
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| 1. | Applications for authorisation on hand | 1875 | 3868* | 18460 | | 2. | Authorisation issued | 1497 | 3462 | 16718 | | 3. | Authorisation rejected | 09 | 110 | 618 | | 4. | Files closed | 00 | 00 | 02 | | 5. | Applications returned to applicant(s) | 11 | 00 | 826 | | 6. | Applications under scrutiny | 358 | 296 | 296 |
| | * This includes 3510 applications received during the year 2009–10 and 358 applications pending from the previous year 2008-09. | | |
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