Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore on Monday declared every ‘Friday’ as ‘single use plastic free day’ in city schools.
This was declared in a programme named ‘Climategiri’ organized by the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh in association by city schools here.
While addressing the gathering, the Governor said that this step has been taken to encourage the public to avoid the usage of single use plastic not only on Fridays but on all days of the week and to motivate the youth to stop their family members from using single use plastic.
The main aim of this step is to completely eliminate the problem of plastic from Chandigarh, he said.
Bandore said that this new step of declaring Fridays as single-use plastic free days will prove to be both a platform for general awareness of the citizens as well as help in changing our behavior and push us towards a healthy lifestyle.
The Governor appreciated the efforts of Municipal Corporation for conducting good awareness programmes besides engaging general public to save the environment.
Earlier, the MC Commissioner KK Yadav said that a large number of government and private schools have come forth in support of the MCC as more than 140 schools have joined this mega event against the elimination of single use plastic in the city.
Notably, the Administration had in September imposed a complete ban on several single-use plastic products in the city. Industrial packaging of less than 50 microns, single use plastic containers of less than 250 microns used for dairy items, plastic sticks among others are banned in the union territory of Chandigarh.