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The airlines/cruise shipping operators shall ensure that no passenger baggage carrying
prohibited plant species is booked. They shall be familiar with existing PQ regulations
issued under The Destructive Insects & Pests Act, 1914 and as well as passenger
baggage rules issued under and provisions of Section 11 of Customs Act, 1962. It
shall be responsibility of travel agents to adequately inform the public about the
regulations pertaining to the Import of plants and plant materials and other notified
goods of plant quarantine concerns, what can be imported as well as what cannot
be imported into India through passenger baggage at the time of booking of tickets.
The plants or plant materials are allowed to enter through the notified points as
specified in
Schedule-I of Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India)
Order, 2003. However, the plants or plant materials for propagation purpose can
be allowed to be imported only through the Regional Plant Quarantine Stations at
Amritsar, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi.
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