The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has launched "Har Gadi Bin, Har Gadi Bag" plan to sensitise citizens towards littering and ban on single use plastic. Anindita Mitra, Commissioner, said that If every citizen keeps a shopping bag in his/her car, plastic bags can be completely eliminated from market areas. She said If every car has a dustbin, and citizens put their trash in the same, littering can be greatly reduced. The Commissioner said that MCC and RLA have tied up with all the car dealers that both at the time of sale of new car, and at the time of servicing, the car dealer shall provide the customer with a dustbin and a shopping bag to try and inculcate these habits in citizens. She further said that RLA shall make it compulsory for citizens who come to renew their registrations, to install dustbins and keep cloth/jute shopping bags in the vehicles. This is an important step as Chandigarh has the highest vehicular density anywhere in the country at 878 registered vehicles per 1000 persons. Mitra said that MCC has also started a selfie with shopping bag/selfie with bottle(to reduce the use of plastic disposable water bottles) in which citizens have been asked to tag the MCC social media handles. She said MCC has been taking several steps to curb the plastic menace.
