Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 6: Government today accorded sanction to the constitution of Inter-Departmental Committee to recommend the road map for use of waste plastic in macadamization works of PW(R&B) Department from next financial year.
According to the Order, Financial Commissioner (Additional Chief Secretary), Finance Department will be the chairman of the Committee, while Administrative Secretaries of Industries & Commerce Department, Housing & Urban Development Department, Public Works (R&B) Department and Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj shall be its members.
The Committee will examine feasibility of using waste plastic in road works with due attention to environmental considerations and analyze its economic considerations with comparative costs of conventional macadamization process and that of using waste plastic.
It will earmark the mode of acquiring suitable plastic for use as construction material by the Hot Mix Plants including means and source, and examine change(s) in Plant or additional machinery required for use of waste plastic in macadamization works.
The Committee will further suggest incentive structure or facilitation of plant owners for developing suitable infrastructure to use waste plastic in macadamization works.
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