Dimapur:
Kohima District Task Force carried out its fourth checking and confiscation exercise to enforce the total ban on all single-use plastics in Nagaland’s capital city Kohima on Friday.
The task force on total ban of all single use plastics has been conducting checking and confiscation exercise at regular intervals to ensure that the ban on the sale and use of single-use plastic is properly enforced.
It aims to create awareness and ensure that the dream of a plastic pollution free Nagaland stays alive.
The team, divided into two groups and aided by various NGOs and government departments, conducted the exercise, visited all the shops in and around the Kohima main town to check the use and sale of all single-use plastics, including poly-propylene bags.
A number of shops were caught using the banned plastic bags and selling minerals water bottles below one litre.
The erring shopkeepers were fined and the banned products were all confiscated.
The seized items will later be disposed off by the Kohima Municipal Council.
The Kohima district administration thanked the various public organistions, Kohima Municipal Council, various government departments for their c-operation and participation in the exercise. (Source: NE NOW)
