KARACHI, April 7: Sindh Minister for Environment and Alternative Energy Dr Saghir Ahmed has urged the citizens to voluntarily abandon the use of polythene bags with less than 30 micron thickness.

He was presiding over a meeting held on Saturday to review the progress of the campaign against the polythene bags.

The minister said that violators of the ban would have to undergo six-month prison term coupled with heavy fines.

He ordered the officials concerned to make the campaign successful by taking strict action against those manufacturing and selling the banned polythene bags without any favour or fear.

Dr Ahmed said that every citizen of the society was responsible to play due role in this regard because the government had banned plastic bags in the interest of the people of Karachi.—PPI