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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
STATE BANS PLASTIC BAGS FROM GUDI PADWA
Correspondent : Yogesh Naik
Twelve years after the first ban on plastic bags in the state failed, the environment ministry has decided to ban them again from the GudiPadwa (March next year).

Environment minister Ramdas Kadam announced the ban after holding a meeting with key government officials on Tuesday.

The meeting was attended, among others, by additional chief secretary (environment) Satish Gavai and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board chief P Anbalagan.

Kadam said that the alternative to plastic bags would be decided soon. He also asked his department to find out if the women self-help groups could stitch cloth bags and present them as an alternative to plastic bags.

The ban will be imposed in a phased manner in the state.

The bureaucrats are said to have told the minister that enough alternatives must be explored and only then should the ban be implemented, otherwise people would be back to using plastic bags. After the deluge in 2005, the state government headed by the then chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh decided to ban plastic bags. Soon after the cabinet passed the proposal, the plastic industry approached the Congress high command and the government then banned only plastic bags below 50 microns.

After the deluge in August, Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray urged the government to ban plastic bags. Aditya announced on social media that he spoke to mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar and municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehta and requested them to consider a total ban on plastic.

“They have assured me that they will take the issue further,’’ said Aditya. He is then said to have told Kadam, who belongs to Shiv Sena, to ensure the ban on plastic.

 
SOURCE : https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/state-bans-plastic-bags-from-gudi-padwa/articleshow/60487040.cms
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