Get Gold for plastic; Jammu and Kashmir village goes
plastic-free
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Sadiwara, a far-flung village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag District, has been declared plastic-free by adopting an innovative scheme
Plastic-free village in
Jammu and Kashmir
Sadiwara village panchayat has started a unique mission for saving the environment. The village head has started a campaign called 'Give Plastic and Take Gold'
Gold for plastic
scheme in J&K
As per the gold for plastic scheme, if someone gives plastic waste of 20 quintals, then the Sadiwara village panchayat will give the person a gold coin
Gold for plastic scheme
The sarpanch of Sadiwara village Farooq Ahmad Ganai, a lawyer by profession, is the brain behind 'Give Plastic and Take Gold' scheme. He encouraged everyone to submit as much plastic waste to the panchayat as possible to claim the gold incentive
Lawyer who started
this campaign
Within 15 days of starting the scheme, the whole village of Jammu and Kashmir was declared plastic-free. The campaign gained popularity and soon other village panchayats also adopted this anti-plastic movement
J&K's Sadiwara village
goes plastic-free
Advocate Farooq Ahmad Ganai told ANI, “I started a slogan in my village to give polythene in return for a reward. I took the initiative to clean rivers and streams. Now, everyone in the village helped us to clear the sites.”
Village panchayat on
the initiative
Credit: ANI
Take a look at the video of people in Sadiwara village as they diligently pick up discarded plastic items across the roads and bins in a bid to make the place, plastic-free
‘Give plastic, take
gold’ in J&K’s village
jammu kashmir village goes plastic free
Assistant Commissioner Development Anantnag, Riyaz Ahmad told ANI, "Under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 2, we have to make our village's polythene and garbage-free and in this regard, Sadiwara panchayat along with the district administration started this model… so that people get motivated to clean their villages."
J&K plastic-free
village under Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan 2
As part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan part 2, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change proposed a ban on single-use plastic (SUPs) by the end of 2022