The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has decided to intensify its measures to enforce the ban on single-use plastics with particular focus on Marina, Besant Nagar, and Tiruvanmiyur beaches to keep them of plastics.
Officials will be deployed to monitor all the shops in and around these three beaches on a daily basis to ensure that they did not use the banned plastic items. According to a press release, the shops would be checked twice day.
In the first such inspection on the Marina beach on Friday, 18 shops were found to be using banned single-use plastics. They were fined ₹1,800.
