Plastic waste kills cows, stops rainwater from percolating: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday urged people to carry cloth bags for shopping and avoid using plastic bags. Plastic waste littering ground does t allow rainwater to be absorbed in soil, and it also kills cows when y eat it, he said.

Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah have spoken about need to curb use of single-use plastic often recently. Cloth bags were distributed to everyone who attended Samajit hikarita Shibir, a function at Kalol in Gandhinagar, Shah's constituency, where aids were distributed to disabled or `divyang' persons. Amit Shah was chief guest at function, also attended by Union Social Justice Minister Thawarchand Gehlot whose ministry h organised it.

"All of you who have come here have been given a bag....we have to use this cloth bag to buy things like vegetables and groceries. Shun plastic bags," Shah said. "Plastic bags take 400 years to disintegrate. If thousands of families take up this cause and stop use of plastic bags, earth will be saved from pollution," BJP leer ded.

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"Junked plastic bags are t allowing rainwater to seep underground and underground water level is going down. Cows eat plastic when we throw away food in plastic bags, and as a result y die," he ded. Shah appealed women attendees especially to stop using plastic bags for shopping. "If you start using cloth bags, it is going to become fashionable and everybody will follow your example," he ded. He praised Prime Minister Modi for his sensitivity towards disabled.

"Earlier Divyang people were called 'viklangs' (those with infirm bodies), but our sensitive Prime Minister brought a law to provide facilities for m and called m divyangs.

"Only a person with a heart can do that," he said. Shah also mentioned that within first five months of Modi government's second term, several decisions were taken for benefit of people. "In cabinet meeting earlier this week, BJP Government decided to increase minimum support prices for various crops under formula that farmers should get a price 50 per cent higher than cost of production," he said. 

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