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Doctors for You v. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Doctors for You sought cigarettes and bidi butts to be declared toxic waste and to prohibit tobacco consumption in any form in all public places. The National Green Tribunal directed the Indian Institute of Toxicological Research, Lucknow (with expenses borne by the Central Pollution Control Board) to ascertain whether discarded butts are toxic waste and, if yes, to frame rules for waste management.

Doctors for You v. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, No. 433/2015, National Green Tribunal (2019).

  • India
  • Apr 12, 2019
  • National Green Tribunal
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Parties

Plaintiff Doctors For You

Defendant Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Legislation Cited

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Type of Litigation

Action against Government to Advance the Public Interest
An individual or organization may sue their own government in order to advance or protect the public interest. For example, an NGO may sue the government claiming the government’s weak tobacco control laws violated their constitutional right to health.

Tobacco Control Topics

Protection of Environment
Measures involving the environment and health of persons in respect to cultivation and manufacture within their territories. (See FCTC Art. 18)

Substantive Issues

Environmental Law Violation
An infringement of a protection contained within a statutory environmental law, including public or private nuisance.

Type of Tobacco Product

None

"[W]e direct MoEF & CC to have a study conducted by IITR, Lucknow as to whether cigarette and bidi butts fall within the category of toxic waste or not. In case, on the basis of the analysis by IITR, Lucknow it is determine that butts fall within category of toxic waste, then the Ministry is directed to immediately come out with appropriate Rules in this regard."
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