India, Aug. 16 -- To weed out single-use plastic, India must first define it
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, delivering his 2019 Independence Day speech at Red Fort, pitched for freedom for India from single-use plastic.
"Can we free India from single-use plastic? The time for implementing such an idea has come. May teams be mobilised to work in this direction. Let a significant step be made on October 2," he said.
This was the Modi government's second strong position against single-use plastic. Harsh Vardhan, the then Union minister for environment, forest and climate change, said on World Environment Day 2018 (June 5) that the country would try to "phase out" single-use plastic by 2022.
PM Modi was present at that event as was United Na...