The undertaking of the Ministry of Health in Rajasthan HC can take time to actually being implemented on ground. The distributors and the shopkeepers are having old stocks that may take some time to rolled back.
When asked to comment on the preparation of the department to implement the order of 85 percent of pictorial warning the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dehradun, Dr S P Agarwal said that the department is yet to receive the Government order on the issue.
He accepted that treatment of old stock and its disposal would be a problem. The CMO however added that the order would be implemented both in letter and spirit.
Uttarakhand incidentally has high incidence of tobacco usage and the state government is working in the direction of making people aware about the ill effects of the tobacco. The Government had last year declared Tehri district as tobacco free.