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Rajkot: The standing committee of the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Friday approved a proposal of collecting higher penalty, up to Rs 2lakh , from those using prohibited plastic in the city in violation of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. It has been observed that manufacturers and traders are blatantly violating the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. We won’t be lenient on users of banned plastic. RMC’s environment engineer Nilesh Parmar said, “We have fixed everybody’s responsibility, from the manufacture to the vendor.” We have seen steady increase in cases of violation of the rules..