Small Businessmen Targeted, Big Companies Continue Using Plastic- Who Cares?
June 23
Nadeem Yusuf
In April this year, the Jammu Kashmir High Court issued an order in the wake of damage to the state’s fragile environs for a ban to be imposed on use of polythene bags in Jammu Kashmir.
The Municipal Corporations and Government Officials have been conducting constant raids and seizing polythene in large quantities from towns and villages as well.
However the unabated usage of polythene continues as the routine practise of targeting the small fish in front of the camera continues, while Big industrialists continue to have a free run.
The state government, under J&K State Non-Bio-degradable Material Act 2007, had imposed a complete ban in 2008 on the manufacture, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of polythene bags.
After the government ...