To crackdown on the single-use plastics, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has formed Flying Squads in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).
During a meeting of regional officers of MPCB in the MMR region, the chairman of the board sought for stricter enforcement to stop the use of single-use plastics, which has been banned.
For this, the MPCB has set up teams / squads for Mumbai, Mumbai suburbs, Thane, Kalyan, Dombivli, Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi-Nizampur, Navi Mumbai and Panvel municipalities and Badlapur Municipal Council.
A press release stated that initially action will be taken through these squads against the establishments that store and distribute single-use plastics, as well as establishments that distribute single-use plastic under the guise of compostable plastic.
As per the instructions of the chairman of the MPCB, the officials of the municipal corporation concerned and officials of the local police department have been included in the squads. The teams will immediately start conducting surprise visits to the establishments and the report will be submitted to the chairman of the MPCB every week.
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