A team of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) personnel stumbled upon a
huge stockpile of banned plastic bags in a textile showroom in Agrahara
here on Monday.

“More than 3,000 kg of plastic bags has been
seized from the textile showroom. This is the single biggest haul so
far,” said MCC’s Health Officer Dr. Ramachandra, who was part of the
team along with MCC Commissioner G. Jagadeesh. The textile showroom was
penalised Rs. 10,000 for using plastic bags despite a government ban.
The team also seized 200 kg of plastic bags from another provision store
in Agrahara. The provision store was penalised Rs. 2,000.

“We have warned them that a criminal case will be booked against them if they repeat the same,” Dr. Ramachandra said.

On
Monday, several teams of MCC conducted simultaneous raids on different
commercial establishments across the city, including shopping malls,
supermarkets and other grocery stores across the Central Business
District, Shivarampet, Kalyanagiri, Udayagiri, Dr. Rajkumar Road and
seized several quintals of plastic. MCC’s Abhaya teams also accompanied
the teams led by the civic body’s officials. So far, MCC has seized more
than 22,000 kg of plastic bags in the city ever since the government
ban was imposed on use of plastic.

To a question, Dr. Ramachandra
said the seized plastic bags have been cut into pieces and stored in
sacks to be given to tar industries.