Noida Authority CEO inaugurates ‘Bartan Bank’, urges people to avoide using plastic items
Saurabh Kumar / Rahul Kumar Jha
Noida: With an aim to encourage people to use environment-friendly ways to serve food, the Noida Authority has adopted a new way to move away from thermocol or plastic items by creating a ‘Bartan Bank.’
The authority made the initiative available for the public on Saturday.
As the name suggests, ‘Bartan Bank’ has a wide range of steel utensils that are required to host a function. It includes steel plates, cutleries, vessels, bowls, glasses, etc. In order to promote the bank among the masses, the corporation has decided to lend the steel items, free of cost.
Ritu Maheshwari, CEO, Noida Authority inaugurated the Bartan Bank and said,
“People can borrow them at free of cost. We want the public to adopt the habit of using steel utensils which cause no harm to the environment. For now there is also a lack of alternatives for plastic in market but with our regular efforts this problem can also be resolved. ”
She also urged the people for providing two hours donation of labour every week for keeping Noida clean. She further asked people to encourage other 100 people to carry forward this initiative.
Though the utensils can be borrowed free of cost, a heavy sum as security is required to be deposited. Authority will only charge if the utensils borrowed are returned in a bad condition. For now there are 2500 utensils set available in the Bank that will be increased by upto 5000, in future.
