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BioMedicalWasteManagement EnvironmentallySoundManagementofMercuryWasteGeneratedfromHealthCareFacilities.


BiomedicalWaste(Management&Handling)Rules,1998werenotifiedbytheMinistryof DocumentaryFilms
Environment&Forests(MoEF)undertheEnvironment(Protection)Act,1986.Inexercise
ofthepowersconferredbySection6,8and25oftheEnvironment(Protection)Act,1986 FutureBeginswithus"
(29of1986),andinsupersessionoftheBioMedicalWaste(ManagementandHandling)
Rules,1998andfurtheramendmentsmadethereof,theCentralGovernmentvideG.S.R.
BMWMStatus
343(E) dated 28 th March, 2016 published the Biomedical Waste Management Rules,
2016. These rules apply to all persons who generate, collect, receive, store, transport,
treat, dispose, or handle bio medical waste in any form including hospitals, nursing
homes, clinics, dispensaries, veterinary institutions, animal houses, pathological BMWMStatus2008
laboratories, blood banks, ayush hospitals, clinical establishments, research or
BMWMStatus2009
educational institutions, health camps, medical or surgical camps, vaccination camps,
blooddonationcamps,firstaidroomsofschools,forensiclaboratoriesandresearchlabs. BMWMStatus2010
BMWMStatus2011
Theprescribedauthorityforenforcementoftheprovisionsoftheserulesinrespectofall
the health care facilities located in any State/Union Territory is the respective State BMWMStatus2012
PollutionControlBoard(SPCB)/PollutionControlCommittee(PCC)andincaseofhealth
BMWMStatus2013
care establishments of the Armed Forces under the Ministry of Defence shall be the
Director General, Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS). These rules stipulate BMWMStatus2014
dutiesoftheOccupierorOperatorofaCommonBiomedicalWasteTreatmentFacilityas
well as the identified authorities. According to these rules, every occupier or operator BMWMStatus2015
handlingbiomedicalwaste,irrespectiveofthequantityisrequiredtoobtainauthorisation
from the respective prescribed authority i.e. State Pollution Control Board and Pollution CBMWTFStatus
ControlCommittee,asthecasemay be. These rules consist of four schedules and five
forms.
CBMWTFStatus2008
.
CBMWTFStatus2009
BiomedicalWasteManagementRules,2016

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CBMWTFStatus2010
CBMWTFStatus2011
Technologiesapprovedandtheconditions CBMWTFStatus2012

ProvisionalApprovaltoPlasmaPyrolysisTechnology CBMWTFStatus2013

ProvisionalApprovaltoShrpBlasterTechnology CBMWTFStatus2014

ProvisionalApprovaltoPIWS3000Technology CBMWTFStatus2015

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TheaboveBMWMstatusandCBMWTFstatusisbasedontheinformationprovidedbytheSPCBsor
PCCsorDGAFMS.Foranyfurtherclarificationontheabove,youmaypleasecontactI/cHWMDin
CPCBorconcernedSPCB/PCC.

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