Mayor strongly bats for blanket ban on polythene carry-bags, items of plastic

STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: The City Mayor of Jammu, Rajinder Sharma on Wednesday strongly batted for blanket ban on polythene carry bags and other items of plastic in routine life to have a clean and pollution free environment in the City of Temples ensuring better health conditions.
The Mayor was speaking during an awareness programme on ‘Banning Use of Polythene’ which was organised by Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) in collaboration with Maulana Azad Memorial (MAM) College in connection to G20 activities in Jammu.
The programme was held at the college auditorium and the Mayor was Chief Guest while Guest of Honour was Baldev Billawaria, Deputy Mayor and Subash Sharma, Chairman Social Justice Committee of JMC was special guest.
While addressing the students and the staff of MAM College, the Mayor asked the gathering to pledged support to make Jammu a polythene-free city.
“This will be a new initiative in which young generation shall also join the move of polythene ban giving a boost to it,” he maintained adding: “It is very important to take a decision regarding some objective of public interest and once the decision is taken one has to put all the energies to bring proper results so that the public is benefitted.”
Rajinder Sharma also talked about harmful effects of plastic on the environment and the urgent need to reduce plastic use.
The programme was organized to encourage individuals to take steps to reduce their plastic consumption.
The Mayor said that the shopkeepers and other traders shall only use the carry-bags recommended by JMC and avoid single use plastic carry bags else they shall be penalized.
The Deputy Mayor talked on environmental hazards caused by polythene-bags and encouraged the students to take the first step toward plastic free Jammu.
The programme started with a welcome address by Dr. Vishal Sharma, HoD Electronics & IQAC Co-Coordinator. He emphasized on the importance of the event and highlighted the environmental hazards of polythene.
A special documentary from DRDO on the harmful effects of polythene was also showed to the audience, which further reinforced the message of the event.
The gathering was educated that one may use paper bags, cloth bags or bags made of cellulose and starch to get rid of polythene bags.
After that students also gave speeches on the topic ‘Banning use of polythene’ in which they spoke about various ill-effect of the plastic, alarming figure about the waste pollution, air pollution due to plastic and their indirect effect on animal and marine life etc.
The first position was bagged by Neha, second by Anant and third by Jaspreet and Pooja. All the winners were awarded with medals, trophies and certificates.
Vote of thanks was given by Dr. Satinder Juneja, who expressed gratitude to all the participants and attendees for their support.
The college authorities ensured that MAM College, Jammu and JMC will continue to work together to create awareness and promote a cleaner environment for the city.
The event was well coordinated by Prof. Neeraj Sharma IQAC Coordinator and NSS-SFU Volunteers and anchored by Navjot and Vanshika, who kept the audience engaged throughout and carried out the proceedings.
The programme was a huge success and had a great impact on the students and attendees.