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Public sensitisation, awareness against plastic bags stressed
Islamabad
February 13, 2021
Islamabad : The role of social responsibility and better public sensitisation and awareness is vital to the elimination of the use of polythene bags, an environmental nuisance, say officials and environmental experts.
They, however, insist that unless people show responsibility towards environmental protection through various means, no effort for tackling environmental degradation will succeed.
Addressing a public awareness rally attended by students and academia at the International Islamic University here on Friday, joint secretary of the climate change ministry Syed Mujtaba Hussain said the widespread use of polythene bags had deepened the country’s burden of environmental degradation, which had worsened the state of public health.
From March 1, users of single-use polythene bags at any level in the federal capital would be fined, the Ministry of Climate Change has warned. Dawn/File
ISLAMABAD: From March 1, users of single-use polythene bags at any level in the federal capital would be fined, the Ministry of Climate Change warned on Friday.
“Anyone found using selling or manufacturing them will face a fine,” said Joint Secretary Syed Mujtaba Hussain of the ministry, who is leading the implementation of the ban on polythene bags.
Speaking at a public awareness rally attended by students and academia at the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), he said from next month there would be a strict check on the use, sale and manufacturing of the single-use plastic bags.
According to its agenda, the CSB is considering promotions of all service cadres of the civil bureaucracy. Creative Commons/File
ISLAMABAD: The Central Selection Board (CSB) has recommended promotion of bureaucrats belonging to the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), Secretariat Group and Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in BS-21 and BS-20.
Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) chairman Zahid Saeed convened a meeting of the board from Jan 4 to 6 to consider 396 officers for promotion. According to its agenda, the CSB is considering promotions of all service cadres of the civil bureaucracy.
Sources in the CSB said the newly appointed chairman of the commission was taking too much time to examine the case of each and every officer, with the result that the board was much behind its schedule. They explained that the board was supposed to examine the promotion of PSP officers at 10.45am, Secretariat Group officers at 12.15pm, PAS at 2pm and Info