GUWAHATI, March 10 – In an effort to
effectively implement the recently enacted "Assam Health (Prohibition Of
Manufacturing, Advertisement, Trade, Storage, Distribution, Sale and
Consumption of Zarda, Guthka, Panmasala etc., containing Tobacco and/or
Nicotine) Act, 2013," the Deputy Secretary of the State Health and Family
Welfare Department has issued a notification to the Director General of Assam
Police, all Deputy Commissioners and Superintendents of Police of the state
informing that the said Act has come into force from February 20, 2014.
Other bodies/authorities/departments
who have been informed about the same are Commissioner of Taxes (Assam), the
Legal Remembrance (Assam), Mission Director-NRHM (Assam), Principal
Secretary-Finance Dept. (Assam), the Principal Secretary (Home & Political
Dept.-Assam), Board of Revenue/Chairman-Assam Administrative Tribunal, CEO-Food
Safety & Standard Authority of India, PS to Parliamentary Secretary (Health
& FW Dept)-Assam, PS to Health & Welfare Minister (Assam), Principal
Secretary to the Chief Minister (Assam), the Commissioner & Secretary (to
the Governor of Assam) and the Secretary to the Government of India (Ministry
of Health & FW).
The notification further requested the
DIPR to widely publicize the above piece of information. This has been done in
exercise of the powers conferred under Section 1(3) of the above mentioned Act.
The Act, if implemented efficiently, is
expected to control tobacco-related health issues in the state, which
coincidentally has a very high rate of tobacco consumption and an alarming rate
of tobacco-related oral cancer cases.
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