Shell out up to Rs 25K for using plastic in Ambala

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Ambala, November 3

The district administration on Monday launched a special drive against the use of single-use plastic in Ambala. The violators would be fined up to Rs 25,000.

Those not segregating garbage at source would be liable to pay Rs 100 as fine and face legal action under the waste management rules. Aimed at making Ambala district ‘plastic-free’, the drive against single-use plastic and waste segregation was launched two months after spreading awareness and urging hotels, restaurants, shopkeepers and vendors to give an undertaking that they would not use single-use plastic.

Action would be taken on not only those people found using single-use plastic, but also on those from whose premises or outside of whose property plastic would be recovered.

The administration also resumed the novel rice-for-plastic drive to distribute free rice against waste plastic collected. DC Ashok Kumar Sharma asked civic bodies in the district to promote the anti-plastic campaign by making residents deposit waste plastic with the administration and get free rice equivalent to weight of plastic.

The drive, which had been suspended due to Covid restrictions after evoking a massive public response, was restarted on public demand.