SIALKOT: Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Zulqarnain has said that civil society, especially women, will have to play their role to eliminate plastic and polythene bags from environment.
Alternative bags including cloth, paper and raffia bags should be used for grocery. The increasing use of plastic has become a threat to environment and 4.81 million tons of plastic is generated annually which is very alarming.
While plastic is seriously affecting human, wildlife and aquatic life, it clogs sewage systems and causes urban flooding.
He said this today while addressing a seminar organised by the Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sialkot (WCCIS) under the title ‘No to Plastic’. Assistant Commissioner (AC) Sialkot Anum Babar, President Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCIS) Dr. Mariam Nouman, Senior Vice President (SCP) WCCIS Gulzeb Waqas Awan, Senior Vice President (SVP) Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Wahub Jahangir, Vice President (VP) SCCI Amer Majeed Sheikh, Chairman Environment Co
mmittee SCCI Jahangir Chaudhary besides members of WCCIS and the people from all walks of life participated.
Earlier, DC Muhammad Zulqarnain participated in the awareness walk, organised in connection with the World Population Welfare Day observance. He said imbalance between Pakistan’s growing population and resources will create economic and financial problems.
The DC said the size of family according to resources is guarantee of a prosperous family. He also presided over the meeting of the District Emergency Response Committee for Anti-Dengue and the Android base surveillance of the hotspots across the district should be foolproof to prevent mosquitoes, especially at the beginning of the rainy season, mosquitoes can get a chance to breed. For this it is necessary that water does not accumulate permanently at any place, he added.