CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur. A meeting of District Environment, Tree Plantation and Ganga Committee was organized in the Collectorate Auditorium under the chairmanship of District Magistrate Saharanpur Manish Bansal. In the meeting, District Magistrate Manish Bansal gave instructions to run a campaign to collect waste plastic lying in open grounds of urban and rural areas. The campaign should be named Plastic Shav Yatra. Under this program, a campaign to collect plastic should be run in all blocks, wards and villages, in which officials of all departments will also participate. He instructed the Municipal Corporation, Body, Block and Gram Panchayats to make a better action plan for waste plastic collection. Instructions were given to collect plastic by making a team of students of all schools and colleges and doing Shramdaan. Along with this, he also gave instructions to take out a funeral procession of the collected plastic. Instructions were given to the Municipal Corporation to take appropriate action to dispose of the collected plastic. Instructions were also given to run a public awareness campaign to not use plastic. District Magistrate Manish Bansal directed to map the sources of pollution in the Hindon river and prepare a detailed action plan for its disposal. He also instructed the concerned officer to obtain a certificate from all the entrepreneurs that their industry is not spreading pollution before the next meeting. Regarding the disposal of dirty water falling into Kailashpur Wetland, the concerned officer was instructed to develop that area along with cleaning the drain. DM Manish Bansal, while taking information regarding the disposal of bio-medical waste, directed that the disposal of bio-medical waste coming out of all the hospitals, clinics, pathology labs present in the district should be done as per the rules by establishing coordination with the concerned institutions. He also instructed to provide the certificate of medical waste as per the rules. While reviewing the plantation done in the district, instructions were given to complete geo-tagging to all those departments which have not done 100% tagging yet. DFO Shubham Singh, DFO Shweta Sain, District Panchayat Raj Officer and other concerned officers were present in the meeting.