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Use of plastic gloves worries activists
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‘Sanitisers could’ve been given after poll’
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‘Sanitisers could’ve been given after poll’
Consumer activists have questioned the rationale behind the use of tonnes of extremely thin plastic gloves during the April 6 voting for the Assembly election. They said that though the use of plastics less than 50 micron for medical purposes is not banned, this is still an abuse of the ban on plastics implemented in the State.
“It took us a year to come even close to bringing some discipline. The government forced some 140 units making single-use plastic bags to close down. They made people buy cloth bags and use them. Big shops, too, converted after much persuasion. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, all that went down the drain. And the election happened and all that the government could think of was single-use plastic gloves. They could have provided us with sticks or something wooden. After all,
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While the Greater Chennai Corporation has promised a transformation in solid waste management with further privatisation of conservancy operations, residents sound a cautionary note against repeating past mistakes with outsourced conservancy operations in the city
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Not there yet: The Greater Chennai Corporation has not yet begun implementing the penal provisions of the Solid Waste Management rules widely. Picture shows battery-operated vehicles of Urbaser Sumeet at a muster point in Chennai.
While the Greater Chennai Corporation has promised a transformation in solid waste management with further privatisation of conservancy operations, residents sound a cautionary note against repeating past mistakes with outsourced conservancy operations in the city
IRDAI Committee Recommends Higher Insurance Premium for Traffic Offences
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A working group set up by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has recommended linking of motor insurance premium to various traffic violations that range from parking in the no-parking areas to drunken driving.
As per the report, the motor insurance premium will be increased if the vehicle had been charged by traffic police for violating the traffic laws. The report recommends a system of calculating traffic violation points (TVP) on the basis of frequency and severity of different traffic offences.
The Insurance Information Bureau of India (IIB) will coordinate with various states traffic police and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to capture the traffic violation data, calculate violation points of each violating vehicle, and make this information available to all general insurers through information technology (IT) system int
Link traffic offences with insurance premium: IRDAI committee
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Link traffic offences with insurance premium: IRDAI committee. Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, Jan 19 : Fined for parking in the no-parking area a couple of times? Be ready to pay an increased insurance premium for the traffic violation.
But don t ask how parking in no-parking area would increase the accident rate and the claims outgo for the insurers.
A Working Group set up by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) submitted its report on Monday, recommending linking of motor insurance premium to various traffic violations that ranges from parking in no-parking areas to drunken driving.