Use of plastic below 50 micron will be banned in the Joda Municipality jurisdiction from April i. This was announced by the civic body’s Executive Officer Suryamani Patjoshi at a meeting held at the Joda Kalyan Manap on Thursday. He further told the gathering that use of plastic not only creates pollution hazards but also leads to death of many cows. Therefore, he sought cooperation of everybody including women SHGs, NGOs of the Joda area to make the plastic-ban mission a total success. Those who were present at the meeting included the municipality Vice-Chairman Surendranath Jena, Councillors Ashok Kumar Naik and Rajkari Thapa, journalist Sirish Chandra Mohanty, MLA representative Nilamani Mohnaty and MP representative Nira Bahidar, among others.