Govt notification on iodised salt under SC scanner

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Govt notification on iodised salt under SC scanner

 

Abraham Thomas | New Delhi

 

A Government notification making the use of iodised salt mandatory

across the country has come under the Supreme Court scanner after a

petition challenging the validity of this law was admitted by the

latter on Tuesday.

 

A Bench of Justices BN Agrawal and PP Naolekar admitted a petition

filed by an NGO Academy of Nutrition seeking to lift the ban imposed

on the sale, production and consumption of non-iodised salt in the

country.

 

Read entire history of salt struggle, an issue between the public and the

adminitrator ar:

 

http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=NATION & file_name=nt2%2Etxt & co\

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[Moderator adds: Salt provided fire to Indias freedom struggle in 1930. Is salt

likely to propel " health freedom struggle " again?]