The Insecticides Act of 1968 and the Pesticide Management Bill of 2020 are two pieces of legislation related to the regulation of pesticides in India. Here are some of the key differences between the two:

Overall, the Pesticide Management Bill of 2020 represents a more comprehensive and modern approach to the regulation of pesticides in India, with a focus on protecting human health and the environment. It also introduces new measures to improve transparency and accountability in the registration and use of pesticides.

Depends on the country where these laws have been adopted

Pesticide management bill 2020seeks to regulate the manufacture, import, sale, storage, distribution, use, and disposal of pesticides, in order to ensure the availability of safe pesticides and minimize the risk to humans, animals, and environment. The Bill seeks to replace the Insecticides Act, 1968. Insecticides Act, 1968 an act to regulate the import, manufactures sale, transport, distribution and use of insecticides with a view to prevent risk to human beings or animals, and for matters connected therewith in 1968 act section 5 speak that the Committee may also co-opt such number of experts and for such purpose or period as it may deem fit, but any expert so co-opted shall have no right to vote. The Registration Committee shall regulate its own procedure and the conduct of business to be transacted by it and section 33 of the act whenever an offence under this Act has been committed by a company, every person who at the time the offence was committed, was in charge of, or was responsible to the company for the conduct of the business of, the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable. The reason cited by the government for introducing this new bill was the inadequacy of the 50-year-old insecticide law to meet the needs of multi-dimensional management and administration of pesticides.

This included a lack of sufficient deterrence against violation, no stricter penalty to safeguard farmer interests and no mechanism to regulate pricing and disposal in an environmentally sound manner.

Pesticide management bill 2020 also mentions the reason cited by the government for introducing this new bill was the inadequacy of the 50-year-old insecticide law to meet the needs of multi-dimensional management and administration of pesticides. This included a lack of sufficient deterrence against violation, no stricter penalty to safeguard farmer interests and no mechanism to regulate pricing and disposal in an environmentally sound manner.