- IMPHAL — After
the state level discussion to ban single-used plastic in the state, the state
authorities started to initiate the programme at the district level so as to
start the implementation of ban on single use plastics across the state from
April 15 onwards.
- On Wednesday, the deputy commissioner (DC) of Thoubal
district, Ahanthem Subhash Singh, appealed to the various government offices
and educational institutions in the district to enforce the ban of single-used
plastic and to submit the report within one month by the head of the offices.
- The directive was conveyed during a day-long workshop on the
ban of single-used plastic (SUP) with DC Ahanthem Subhash Singh in the chair at
the conference hall of his office.
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- The DC informed that the district administration would take
up a stringent drive to enforce the ban of single-used plastics in the
district. In order to successfully implement the ban of the single-used plastic
in the district, he informed that the district administration had set up
inspection teams of twenty members, while a district task force has been
already constituted for monitoring.
- The DC also appealed to the wholesaler and retailers not to
sell the single-used plastic items that have been banned by the government.
- Dr. T Brajakumar, director of Environment and Climate
Change, representatives from Manipur Pollution Control Board, Home department
and different district level officers participated in the workshop.
- On April 4, the principal secretary of Municipal
Administration, Housing and Urban Development(MAHUD), RK Dinesh, while
attending a consultation workshop on plastic waste management Rules 2016 and
ban on SUP items in Imphal, remarked that the entire state of Manipur would be
choked unless the use of SUP are banned.
