With less than a year left for its term to end, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre has revived its attempt to reconstitute the Rubber Board.
Months after it dropped a move to implement a new Rubber Act through an executive order, the government has now come up with a new Bill titled The Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2023, a draft of which is now being circulated among stakeholders.
According to sources, the Additional Secretary in charge of Plantations at the Union Ministry for Commerce is scheduled to hold a meeting in this regard at the Rubber Board headquarters on Friday. The meeting, to be attended by all stakeholders of the sector from farmers to tyre manufacturers, is aimed to mobilise their opinion on the draft Bill.
