The 'Meendum Manjappai' campaign launched by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is aimed to create awareness on the usage of cloth bags instead of single-use plastic bags.
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‘The pollution control board officials have recently conducted raids at illegal plastic bag-making units after appealing to the people to provide inputs on such illegal plastic bag-making units that are manufactured in residential areas.’
The Tamil Nadu government has taken a policy decision after Stalin assumed office as Chief Minister to promote use of cloth bags for shopping, and to stop the usage of plastic bags. The state pollution control board is conducting an exhibition of items that can be used as alternative to plastic bags.
The programme was inaugurated at Kalaivanar Arangam on Wallajah road.
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He also called upon the people to reduce the use of plastics, and to try and replace plastic with clothes.
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The campaign aims at reducing the single-use plastic that causes damage to the environment.
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Rajesh Mukundarajan, an environmentalist, and director of Erode Advocacy Group, an organisation for environmental conservation, told IANS: "The state government entering this awareness campaign is a welcome sign and the Chief Minister himself taking the initiative will give a clear message to the people of the state."
Source-IANS
