Manipur to ban single-used plastics from April 15

• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• The DC also appealed to the wholesaler and retailers not to sell the single-used plastic items that have been banned by the government.
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• 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.
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• 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.