Tissue Culture Based Seed Potato Committee

(1) The State Government shall, as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, constitute a Committee to be called the Tissue Culture Based Seed Potato Committee to advise the State Government on matters arising out of the administration of this Act and matters related thereto and to carry out such other functions as may be assigned to it by the Government. (2) The Committee constituted under sub-section (1) may appoint one or more Sub-Committees consisting wholly of members of the Committee or wholly of other persons or partly of members of the Committee and partly of other persons, as it thinks fit, for the purpose of discharging such of its functions as may be delegated to such Sub-Committee or Sub-Committees by the Committee. (i) Producer of any class of seed must keep written record of the source of seed used for producing next class of seed. (ii) At the time of certification, information like name, address, phone number and email of the producing agency shall be clearly mentioned on the seed label. (iii) Only certified seed of one class can be used to produce certified seed of next class. This rule shall apply from G0 to G4 to ensure full traceability. (iv) The label must have a QR code containing all the information printed on the label. Subject to the provisions of section 7, no adolescent shall be required or permitted to work in an establishment in excess of such number of hours of work as is permissible under the law for the time being in force regulating the hours of work of the adolescent in such establishment.