Mangalore: MCC Raids on Plastic Ban Violators at Karangalpady
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (DV)
Mangalore, Jan 2: Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) health inspectors carried out raids on various places located adjacent to Karangalpady market here on Tuesday January 1.
It is learnt that plastics weighing 19.55 kg were seized from 8 places including hotels, vegetable shops, flower stalls, and so on.
A total of Rs 600 was collected as fine from violators.
The officials then went to the ongoing Karavali Utsav and raided the stalls.
The raids were carried out under the directions of MCC commissioner Dr Harish Kumar, and supervision of senior health inspector Bharath Kumar, who recently joined the team after being suspended last year on allegations of bribery.
Health inspectors Sushanth, Yashwanth, Poovappa, Basavaraj, Karunakar, environment engineer Manjunath Shetty were part of the raiding team
It is also said that five teams have been set up for carrying out similar raids throughout the city.
It may be recalled a few days ago, Dr Harish Kumar had warned during a press meet that MCC would begin its raids again in order to ensure total ban on plastics.