Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has clarified that it has not authorised any individual or group for the sale of non-woven poly propylene carry bags in Kohima and that such activity was unauthorized, non-permissible and illegal.
In a notification, KMC administrator Kovi Meyase stated that certain individual/group reportedly selling “non-woven white poly propylene bag” in Kohima in the guise of having been authorized by KMC. It stated that those non-woven white carry bags were made from poly propylene, which was a thermo plastic polymer and therefore not plastic free.
Therefore, in line with the government ban from all single-use plastic, KMC said non-woven white carry bags also fell within the category of banned plastic items.