Deputy mayor launches ‘100 days to beat plastic-2.0’ campaign

Aaley Mohammad Iqbal, Deputy Mayor of Delhi, launched the ‹100 Days to Beat Plastic-2.0› campaign on Wednesday at Waste to Wonder Park in Sarai Kala Khan, aiming to make the MCD area ‹Plastic Free› with people›s participation. The Deputy Mayor also appealed to citizens not to use plastic in their daily lives.

Under the unique campaign ‘100 Days to Beat Plastic-2.0’, MCD has planned various activities, including intense inspections and enforcement actions in weekly markets to seize the banned single-use plastic and focus on making these markets a plastic-free zone in a strategic manner. MCD will also distribute cloth bags and focus on opening more Vikalp stores, wall art and installations related to plastic, and awareness and outreach events to combat single-use plastic.

Aaley Mohammad Iqbal, Deputy Mayor, said while addressing the event that the 100 Days to Beat Plastic 2.0 campaign is much needed and praiseworthy. He added, I congratulate all the employees and officers of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for this initiative. The corporation is working effectively to make the city plastic-free.»

He further said that in this field, MCD is far ahead of other civic bodies in the country. At one time, it was very difficult to think that a corporation could even run a campaign against plastic. But MCD has done this. The Corporation of Delhi has done excellent work against plastic on the ground instead of on paper. No other corporation has been able to do the work of making waste-to-art projects that MCD has done.
Plastic is a big threat to our environment as well as our future.

We will all have to come together and take the campaign against plastic to the masses. Any campaign can be made successful only with public participation. I am sure that together we will definitely succeed in making Delhi a plastic-free city one day,› said the Deputy Mayor.