Uttarakhand to ban spitting

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Last Updated : Jan 29 2013 | 2:34 PM IST

Uttarkahand would soon bring a comprehensive solid waste management (SWM) policy and impose a ban on spitting and littering in the state.

In order to prevent garbage dumping, a solid waste management policy would be drafted, said chief secretary Alok Kumar Jain here on Thursday.

An anti-spitting and anti-littering Bill would also be brought in the vidhan sabha, Jain said.

Chairing a meeting, Jain said the dumping garbage was a crime and to prevent it, a waste management policy was being drafted.

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First Published: Jan 11 2013 | 12:47 AM IST

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