Dakshina Kannada's new in-charge minister Dinesh Gundu Rao to visit Mangaluru on June 11
Mangaluru: Dinesh Gundu Rao, the new minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada district, will visit and tour the district on June 11.
Dinesh was appointed as the minister in-charge of the coastal district along with 31 other in-charges earlier in the day.
He will be arriving in Mangaluru for the first time after being appointed as the minister in-charge and will return to Bengaluru on the same day night to participate in a government program.
Dinesh will arrive at Mangaluru Airport at 8:35 AM on June 11 and later in the day will launch the 'Shakti' project at the government KSRTC bus stand in Bejai at 12:30 PM. Following the inauguration, he will hold discussions with officials from district administration to review the progress of the district. According to the schedule, he will leave for Bengaluru by flight at 9:50 pm.
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Karnataka: Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre unveils plan for scientific disposal of plastic bottles
Bengaluru: In a bid to address the mounting plastic waste problem, Eshwar B. Khandre, Minister for Forests, Ecology, and Environment, has directed the additional chief secretary of the department to formulate regulations that will require packaged water bottle manufacturers to take responsibility for the scientific disposal of plastic bottles.
As part of the proposed plan, Khandre has suggested introducing a minimum price for each water bottle, which would be refunded when the bottle is returned to any establishment selling packaged water, as reported by Deccan Herald on Monday.
Under this initiative, when a person buys a new water bottle, the minimum price for each returned bottle would be discounted from the bill for the new one.
The goal is to ensure that empty bottles are returned to the shops where they were purchased, preventing them from being discarded in public spaces or ending up in the environment. Under the plan, these establishments would then return the empty bottles to manufacturers, who would be responsible for the scientific disposal of the plastic.
Khandre emphasised that the proposed regulations are aimed at tackling plastic pollution more effectively. Although the central government has already banned the manufacture, storage, sale, and use of certain single-use plastics, and the state government has enacted similar regulations, plastic waste continues to be a significant environmental challenge.
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