Integrated Plant Nutrition Management Bill

18 February 2022 Current Affairs:The central government has proposed a law to empower it to repair fertilizers' maximum asking price and control their quality and distribution.

Highlights:

• All stakeholders have been asked to comment on the Department of Fertilizers' proposed Integrated Plant Nutrition Management Bill, 2022.
• It is the convenient public interest that the central government should take under its control on distribution, price, and quality of standards of fertilizers.

Provisions 

• The bill seeks to determine India's Integrated Plant Nutrition Management Authority.
• It aims to promote the development and sustainable use of balanced fertilizers, including bio-fertilizers, nano-fertilizers, bio-stimulates, and organic fertilizers.
• It seeks to simplify manufacturing production, distribution, and price management of fertilizers across India. 
• This may help in improving the convenience of doing business.
• Central Government would be ready to fix maximum prices or rates at which any fertilizer could also be sold by a dealer, importer, manufacturer, or fertilizer marketing entity.
• It also aims to empower the Centre to repair different rates or prices for fertilizers having different storage periods or for various classes of consumers or various areas.
• No person would be ready to manufacture, import, purchasable, sell, or market without obtaining appropriate registration.