Summary:
The BMC initiative, on the other hand, will help people be aware of the new “gifting ideas'' like gifting a sapling, books and most importantly cotton bags as the ban on polythene bags is in force. Initiating the inspiring step BMC Commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhary said “we have appealed the public to adopt green gifting ideas through our “Go Green Campaign'' and our employees of BMC are following it. We hope people should adopt the suggestions of the Civic body and use gifts with less or zero waste generation potential.''At five other locations i.e. As part of the campaign a mobile van in collaboration with Axis Bank also launched a “Mu Safaiwala Rath'' through which eco-friendly cotton bags were distributed and awareness was created for “Swachh Bharat'' and “Swachh Bhubaneswar''. Today BMC distributed 2,200 cotton bags, 1,000 books and 2,600 saplings through five distribution points and one in the early morning hours near BMC gate..