Marking
an important step toward preventing the country’s e-waste problems,
Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT),
the apex body actively
representing ICT Manufacturing, Training, IT, Design, R&D and
associated services sector conducted a formal workshop on “E-Waste
Rules for Bulk Consumers” in
partnership with the
Ministry of
Environment & Forests and the Central Pollution Control Board and
Dataserv APAC in
Uttar Pradesh, Noida today. Anwar Shirpurwala,
Executive Director, MAIT, welcomed the gathering at the event and
stressed the need for upscaling of e-waste re-cycling and disposal to
create widespread awareness amongst Indians.
Highlighting
the various provisions for E-waste rules, Chhanda Chowdhury, Director, Ministry of Environment & Forests,
Government of India,
said, “Electronics industry
is growing exponentially, and with rapid advancements in technology
and rise in demand and rate of technological obsolescence, we all
face a new challenge of ewaste. Realising the concern, government of
India has notified E-waste rules in 2011. Now, the main challenge is
how to bring informal sector into the mainstream the E-waste
management. These workshops organised in many states will help us
create awareness about the e-waste management rules in general and
for bulk consumers in particular.”
While
addressing the gathering, Anwar
Shirpurwala, Executive Director, MAIT, said,
“India being a geographically complex country the task of creating
awareness about E-waste is an exigent task. This workshop targets the
bulk consumers with an aim of training organizations to spread wider
awareness about e-waste management. This agenda can only be achieved
if bulk consumers of electrical and electronic equipments accept
their responsibility to follow the E-waste rules and channelize it
through authorized collection centres or recyclers”.
The
workshop also emphasized on the point that every bulk consumers shall
maintain records of e-waste generated by them and make such records
available for scrutiny by the State Pollution Control or the
Pollution Control Committee.
Anand Kumar, Sr. Environment Engineer, CPCB, Ashish Chaturvedi,
Sr. Technical Advisor GIZ, Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Deputy Chief Materials
Manager, Nothern Railway, Ms. Ritu Ghosh, Manager – Government
Advisory, Hewlett Packard India, Mr. Rajesh Chawla, DGM – ITSS,
State Bank of India, Mr. Amit Sardana, Managing Director, Dataserv
APAV graced the event and addressed the
issues & challenges for effective implementation of E-Waste
rules.
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