STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: A campaign to ban polythene in Jammu commenced on Monday to further the objective of G20 to stop the activities responsible for climatic changes with the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) organizing an awareness campaign in collaboration with FICCI FLO JKL chapter under guidance of its Chairperson Varuna Anand. Model Institution of Education and Research (MIER) also collaborated.
Members of FICCI FLO JKL chapter and MIER Collage chairperson, vice chairperson and students participated in the programme in which Mayor of Jammu; Rajinder Sharma was the Chief Guest.
Speaking on the occasion, the Mayor stressed on having will power and determination to accomplish any task and cited the example of Carl Lewis-an athlete who being physically challenged won three gold medals in Olympics due to will power.
“Society can’t change till it develops will and spirit for a change,” he maintained further citing another example of Michael Fill who despite having a broken arm won eight gold medals in Olympics.
“I see the same spirit and potential in you,” the Mayor continued while addressing the gathering and added, “With this spirit you will work dedicatedly to discard all the polythene from the Jammu city within a month.”
Sharma said that for similar programmes shall be carried on in each college and university of Jammu and four students from each of these institutions shall talk on the issue from which the first three shall be given certificates.
He said that this initiative of anti-polythene by JMC is taken as per G20 objective and after this there shall be a walk in which students shall participate and the walk shall follow with a conference in which all DDC and BDC members shall participate along with chairmen presidents and councillors of municipal bodies and others.
The Mayor also stressed on the replacing poly-bags with the one made of cellulose and starch as the latter is made of bio-degradable material which will not harm the environment. “This will also ensure clean Jammu and shrinking of water bodies shall also be prevented by this while the polythene already in use shall be reused for macdamisation of roads and in industrial purposes,” he added.
Prominent among those present in the event from FLO JKL included Aarti Chowdhary, Vice Chairperson Pooja Gandotra, Joint Treasurer, Mona Saraf, Secretary, Chandni Kapoor, Joint Secretary Kamakshi Diwan, Purnima Chowdhary, Shweta Chowdhary, Nandita Bajaj, Ridhima Diwan, Dr. Sandeep Khosla, Ridhima Jain, Parakh Jain and Pooja Khuranna.