Kathmandu. Tikapur Municipality of Kailali has monitored 193 farms and businesses in a week. A total of 65 kilograms of plastic bags were confiscated in course of market monitoring carried out for the purpose of market management and for the benefit of consumers.

The local government has banned the use of plastic bags in Tikapur since mid-July last year. According to the municipal office, the use of plastic bags clandestinely violating the standard was confiscated with the objective of monitoring and preventing the use. During the monitoring, the team confiscated daily consumables worth Rs 18,939.

A total of 117 grocery and other businesses, 52 plastic traders and 24 medical and pharmacies were monitored during the monitoring, said member secretary of the team and chief of the Economic Development Section Ranju Acharya.

Chief Administrative Officer of Tikapur Municipality, Suman Dhital, said that some entrepreneurs have been instructed to meet the criteria after monitoring and some entrepreneurs have been warned for the last time. “Those whose businesses are not registered have been given time to renew their registration, and those that have not been renewed have been taken to the process immediately”, he said. Wholesalers have been instructed not to seal the plastic bags in their warehouses and sell them from now on. ”

Stating that the local government has been continuously carrying out consumer awareness works, Dhital said that the rights of consumers would be protected if every consumer could see only the expiry date. Chairperson of Forum for Protection of Consumer Rights, Tikapur, Ekinindra Timilsina urged the government to maintain the fare of auto-rickshaws in Tikapur, to manage noise pollution caused by loud DJs and loudspeakers in the market, to coordinate on traffic awareness as it is difficult to use urban roads and to monitor regularly to stop the use of plastic.

Janak Shah, in-charge of pharmacy at Tikapur Hospital, urged the medical practitioners and pharmacy operators to coordinate with the Waste Management Centre and facilitate the management of waste.

Bal Bahadur Rawal, chief of the health section of Tikapur Municipality, said that after the monitoring, the pharmacies have started coming for registration, 22 medical shops have been given the deadline for registration and the mother’s milk replacement act has been systematized. “We have asked the farmers not to sell milk bins, powdered milk and other products after regularizing the sale and distribution of mother’s milk substitutes,” he said, adding, “Now the traders have become alert.” You have started selling it only if you have a doctor’s recommendation. ”

According to Mohan BK, chairperson of Ward No. 1, around 3,000 enterprises were registered at the market. “We have imparted training to the toll development organizations for the plastic-free campaign”, he said, adding, “The speed of load-carrying tippers has increased in the market and this should be reduced”. The movement of goods vehicles should be prohibited when children go to school and return home. This has led to accidents. ”