Chaos was the norm on the Kesar Ganj market after plastic merchants on Tuesday blocked the street within the neighborhood for over two hours to mark their protest towards the joint drive organized towards single-use plastic objects by municipal company (MC), Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

The protest, nevertheless, was known as off after police intervention.

As per the knowledge, the joint groups issued 9 challans in Kesar Ganj mandi and Saban Bazar — recovering a penalty of 1.34 lakh from the merchants.

Traders known as for the protest after the groups issued challans towards the violators, alleging that the identical had been issued towards the plastic objects which haven’t been banned within the state.

Alleging the wrongful challans, Kesar Ganj plastic service provider affiliation president Vipan Kataria and basic secretary Puneet Makhija stated the state authorities was attempting to finish your entire plastic commerce within the state.

“Plastic carry baggage had been banned by the federal government and now we have stopped buying and selling in the identical. But the authorities are issuing challans towards the plastic objects which haven’t been banned. This is just not acceptable and the state authorities ought to intervene to save lots of the plastic trade,” Makhija, including that the merchants could be pressured to close down the models and hand over the keys to the state if the wrongful insurance policies should not checked.

Notably, the MC has struggled to implement a ban on plastic carry baggage and single-use plastic objects within the metropolis. While the plastic carry baggage have been banned since April 2016, the ban on single-use plastic got here into pressure on July 1.

Traffic motion hit

Commuters within the space, in the meantime, had been left harried because of the nearly-two-hour protest. Police diverted the site visitors in a bid to streamline circulate, however jams had been witnessed because of the slender roads within the Old City areas.