Context:
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) released ‘Draft Explosives Bill (2024)’, for public Consultation.
Draft Explosives Bill 2024:
- Replaces ‘Explosives Act, 1884’ aimed to regulate the manufacture, possession, use, sale, transport, import and export of explosives.
- Important Provisions –
- Defines explosive – Explosive means gunpowder, nitroglycerine, nitroglycol, guncotton, or any other substance used or manufactured to produce a practical effect by explosion or pyrotechnic effect.
- Licensing authority – Chief Controller of Explosives or such other authority as may be prescribed.
- Central Government shall prescribe the authority competent to grant, suspend or revoke a licence.
- Currently, PESO is responsible for such things.
- Punishment for contravention – Manufacturing, import or export in contravention of the Act will attract imprisonment for up to three years, a fine of Rs 1,00,000, or both.
- Power of Central Government – It can make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act
Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO):
- Nodal agency for regulating safety of hazardous substances such as explosives, compressed gas and petroleum
- Established in – 1898.
- Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Mandate – Administer the responsibilities delegated under the Explosives Act 1884 and Petroleum Act 1934 and the Rules made thereunder.
Source: Economic Times
Previous Year Question
The Trade Disputes Act of 1929 provided for:
[UPSC Civil Service Exam – 2017 Prelims]
(a) The participation of workers in the management of industries.
(b) Arbitrary powers to the management to quell industrial disputes.
(c) An intervention by the British Court in the event of a trade dispute.
(d) A system of tribunals and a ban on strikes.
Answer: (d)
