A campaign to popularise cloth bags as part of the Haritha Keralam initiative will be held in the Kannur Assembly constituency. Volunteers will collect used clothes from households and return stitched bags made of them.
The drive, being launched by the constituency development committee, will cover 45,000 households in the constituency and distribute two lakh cloth carry bags, committee convener N. Chandran said on Thursday. He said the objective of the drive was to popularise cloth bags instead of plastic bags, which are banned in the district. The programme would be supported by Kudumbasree. Volunteers would visit all households to collect used clothes and return the bags a few days later, collecting a nominal sum as stitching charge.
Ports Minister Kadannappally Ramachandran would inaugurate the campaign at Kanhirodetheruvil in Mundery panchayat at 9 a.m. on August 6. Kudumbasree workers would collect the cloth pieces from the households in the first phase. The bags would be stitched by tailoring units and Kudumbasree workers, he said. On Gandhi Jayanthi on October 2, the completion of the drive would be declared, he said.