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BMC fines us for using plastic bags, then sells them for profit!
Updated On: 30 July, 2012 06:15 AM IST | | Rinkita Gurav
The civic agency, which has cracked down on the rampant use of thin plastic in the city that leads to clogged drains and flooding during monsoon, has been selling the seized items back to the highest bidder
In a world of plastic intentions, plastic promises and plastic bags, while the latter are the city’s civic agency’s obvious priority, the other two components cannot be overlooked. Why else would Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which recently ran a campaign between June 17 and July 18 against plastic less than 50 microns thick, sell it back by the hordes to the highest bidder? The corporation has always insisted that the main reason for the 2005 floods in Mumbai was the uncontrolled use of the synthetic item.u00a0



