AAI declares 20 more airports singe-use plastic free, takes total number to 55
NEW DELHI: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has banned single-use plastic at 20 more places, taking the total number of its airports to get this green initiative to 55. The 20 airports declared “single-use plastic-free” last Friday are: Allahabad, Aurangabad, Belgaum, Bhuj, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Gaya, Gorakhpur, Jabalpur, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kangra, Khajuraho, Leh, Rajahmundry, Rajkot, Silchar, Surat and Tuticorin.
These airports now join the ranks of 35 others that were declared single-use plastic free in phase-I. These are: Agartala, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Calicut, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Guwahati, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mangalore, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, Tiruchirappalli, Tirupati, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi had during his Independence Day speech urged citizens to stop using single-use plastic bags by October 2, 2019. We are acting on that clarion call,” said an AAI official.
