A farmer in Yavatmal district has been served a notice by authorities for not providing safety kits to a labourer for pesticide spraying due to which he took ill, an official said today.
The show cause notice was served yesterday on Vijay Malekar who owns a farm in Tejpur village in Wani taluka for negligence.
The labourer Ankush Bhoyar (30) fell ill after spraying a pesticide and was admitted in hospital, said Residential Deputy Collector (RDC) Narendra Fulzele.
He said the government had made it mandatory to provide safety kits to farm labourers in the wake of a number of deaths due to pesticide poisoning in the district last year.
Fulzele said Bhoyar was discharged from hospital earlier this week.
The notice was issued on the complaint of the relatives of Bhoyar.
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