UGC asks all univs to campaign against single-use plastics

UGC asks all univs to campaign against single-use plastics

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Chennai:11.10.2021

The University Grants Commission on Friday asked universities and colleges to conduct impactful awareness campaign to avoid the single-use plastics as part of Centre’s ongoing Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav campaign.

“Awareness programmes to avoid single-use plastics have been identified as one of the themes for the campaign with a view to gather momentum, scale visibility and outreach,” UGC secretary Rajnish Jain said in a letter to the vicechancellors of all universities. The letter called for awareness on the recently notified Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, as well. The rules aim to phase out single-use plastics which have low utility and high littering potential by 2022.