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“Even vegetable vendors refuse to sell if a customer wants plastic bag now,” they said. Shopkeepers should also be educated to encourage people to carry cloth bags. Devotees were seen dumping plastic bags on the temple premises.The Birla Mandir in Khairatabad is a prominent tourist destination in the city and has a few lanes of roadside shops selling their wares in bags mostly below 50 microns.“We have a similar ban in Pune. TimesView With the government failing to enforce the ban on plastics in GHMC limits, the latest observation by the HC should serve as a wake-up call for authorities to carry out awareness campaigns in markets and temples before a possible ban is enforced. HYDERABAD: At a time when the Hyderabad High Court is poised to enforce a ban on plastics in temples across the two states, plastic bags were found strewn at the Birla Mandir A day after the HC said it wanted to begin with cleaning plastics from temple starting from coconut vendors to flower sellers and roadside jewellery shops, hundreds of plastic bags were in use..