Ludhiana | Plastic industry seeks revocation of ban on plastic carry bags with width over 75 microns
Representatives from Ludhiana’s plastic industry met environment minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer in Chandigarh, seeking revocation of ban, However, no consensus was reached and the minister assured to take up the matter with chief minister Bhagwant Mann.
Demanding revocation of ban on plastic carry bags with width over 75 microns, representatives from city’s plastic industry met environment minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
However, no consensus was reached and the minister assured to take up the matter with chief minister Bhagwant Mann. Following this, the industry postponed the agitation announced against the government from Wednesday onwards.
The meeting was arranged by local MLAs, including Gurpreet Gogi, Madan Lal Bagga and Ashok Prashar Pappi, after the local industrialists recently approached them.
The industrialists rued losses at large and demanded that the state government should allow manufacturing, sale and use of plastic carry bags with width above 75 microns as allowed by union and Delhi government.
General secretary of Plastic Merchant Welfare Association Puneet Makhija said representatives of different industrial associations also participated in the meeting, including president of Association of Punjab Technical Textiles Pawanpreet Singh, president of Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) among others, and pressed for the revocation of ban on plastic carry bags with width above 75 microns.
The plastic industry is on a brink of closure and government needs to pay heed to the problem, otherwise closure of industry would also lead to large scale unemployment, he said. “As the minister has assured to take up the matter with chief minister in the coming days, we have postponed the agitation, but we will move on roads if the government failed to provide any relief in the coming few days,” Makhija added.