Plastic Ban: Kohima DTF conducts checking exercise

Kohima District Administration along with other departments and NGOs conducting its second checking and confiscation exercise on total ban of single use plastic covering the whole of Kohima town on November 15. (DIPR Photo)

Kohima, November 15 (MExN): Kohima District Task Force on total ban of single-use plastic conducted its second checking and confiscation exercise covering the whole of Kohima town on November 15. 

A DIPR report stated that the task force comprising of members from the district administration and other departments and NGOs conducted the checking exercise with the objective of enforcing the total ban imposed on all single use plastic products and also to restrict all shops within the Kohima jurisdiction from selling and using plastic bags, mineral water bottles below 2 ltrs, Styrofoam cups and plates, plastic cups, forks and spoons and a number of other single use non-biodegradable plastic products. 

The Task Force members were divided into five teams, each covering different areas and were assisted by various public organizations. A large number of shops were caught selling the banned single-use plastic products. The erring shopkeepers were fined and forewarned that their trade licenses would be cancelled if found violating the ban order again. The banned products were all confiscated by the teams for disposal. 

With the Government of Nagaland working tirelessly to make Nagaland a plastic free state, the efforts of the Kohima District Task Force on total ban on single use plastics is indeed making a difference with a huge decrease in the output of non-biodegradable plastic waste and leaving  the State capital looking cleaner and greener.