Environment Minister seeks traders’ support to prevent use of plastic water bottles; wants them to promote glass bottles

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Minister for Environment and Climate Change V.K. Rajeev addressing a relation  held astatine  Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry successful  Madurai connected  Saturday.

Minister for Environment and Climate Change V.K. Rajeev addressing a relation held astatine Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry successful Madurai connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY

Appealing to traders to forestall usage of integrative h2o bottles and promote solid containers, Tamil Nadu Environment and Climate Change Minister V.K. Rajeev said that the caller authorities nether the enactment of Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay would surely bring successful a alteration for betterment of the people.

Speaking astatine a felicitation relation organised by the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry present connected Saturday, helium said that disposal of coagulated discarded was a large challenge. The authorities is committed to introducing an innovate coding strategy shortly.

“We volition marque the alteration arsenic promised. You (people) beryllium a alteration and beryllium an illustration to it....” helium stressed.

Thanking the members and the office-bearers of the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the honour accorded to the recently elected representatives, Dr. Rajeev said that the Tamil Nadu authorities would assistance enactment their betterment. However, helium underlined that thing which was nether the purview of the law, the authorities would not hesitate to basal by the commercialized and industry.

He besides said that lone erstwhile the commercialized and manufacture flourished, determination would beryllium maturation and scope for much occupation opportunities.

Hence, the government, which has conscionable taken over, would emergence up to the occasion. “In little than 2 years of floating the enactment (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam), the enactment person Mr. Vijay had travel to the spot of power. Certainly, the radical tin witnesser maturation and improvement successful the coming months,” helium said amid applause from the gathering.

Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry president N. Jegatheesan, caput S. Sridhar, V.Neethimohan, Jeeyarbabu and different office-bearers participated.

The recently elected MLAs S. Karthikeyan (Madurai East), A. Kallanai (Madurai North), M.M. Gopison (Madurai South), S.R. Thangapandi (Madurai West), PLA Jaganath Misra (Cumbum) were felicitated.

The MLAs assured to widen their enactment and practice for the improvement of Madurai and confederate districts of Tamil Nadu.

Published - June 06, 2026 08:40 p.m. IST

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