The Pioneer 21.05.2013
Few takers for Government initiatives against polythene
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RMC, Deepankar Panda, Deputy Mayor of RMC, Sanjeev Vijayvargiya and some other officials were present in the seminar but chief guest and Principal Secretary of Urban Development Department Arun Kumar Singh gave the programme a slip. Though the RMC has made arrangements for 500 but it could gather barely 100 odd. Use of polythene bags with thickness of less than 40 micron and measuring 18x12 inches in size is being made penal as per a Government order in the State.
Town planner Gajanand Ram tried his best to understand the participants about the disadvantage of using the polythene bags and encouraged the use of paper and clothes made bags. He asked to share experiences.
Deputy Mayor of RMC Sanjiv Vijayvargiya said, “We have decided to divide the city into six segments and ward members of the respective areas will play major role in spreading awareness for stopping the use of polythene bags of below the described thickness and dimension”. The main motive of this seminar was to give the city people an awakening call for dropping down the use of polythene bags of above mentioned thickness and size and to run it like a movement in the city but the effort made did not show much zeal and enthusiasm a very cold reaction came out of it.
