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Particular anti-littering squads have been shaped to impose fines of Rs 500 on offenders, who’re litter the metro stations with plastic bottles, betel juice, and gutkha.
Kolkata Metro is initiating particular drives and imposing fines to deal with the difficulty of each day commuters littering station premises, significantly within the newly inaugurated stretch from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade.
Regardless of the Metro’s efforts to offer quick, reasonably priced transportation and cut back air pollution, a bit of commuters have been littering the premises with plastic bottles, betel juice, and gutkha.
“Although the Metro is consistently thriving for offering quick, easy and least expensive mode of transport to commuters, these commuters have been continually making the premises untidy and filthy by throwing plastic bottles, spitting betel juices and gutkha specifically within the newly inaugurated stretch of Inexperienced Line from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade,” the Metro Railway stated in an announcement.
The particular drive at each Inexperienced (Esplanade-Howrah Maidan and Sealdah-Sector 5) and blue strains (Dakshineswar-New Garia and New Garia-Ruby) is aimed toward stopping “any such nuisance actions on station premises in a agency method,” the assertion added.
Particular anti-littering squads have been shaped to impose fines of Rs 500 on offenders, and consciousness campaigns are being carried out by means of bulletins, posters, counseling, and social media. ”
Particular consciousness movies are additionally being performed on all platform TVs at completely different Metro stations. Litter bins have been put up at completely different stations together with bottle crusher machines. Metro Railway’s official social media handles are getting used to unfold the notice messages,” spokesperson Kausik Mitra stated.
Moreover, litter bins and bottle crusher machines have been put in at stations to encourage accountable disposal. Because the launch of the underwater Metro on March 15, stories of littering and defacing station interiors have prompted common cleanliness drives by the officers.
