Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh said since the government was putting in place austerity measures on smoking and drug abuse, the menace of polythene use and non-adherence to ban was another major health hazard. He said the government would soon bring in a stringent legislation to cleanse the state of polythene pollution. Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, in her recent statement, endorsed an NGO’s view to take stringent measures against smoking in Jammu and Kashmir. “It is a great step forward to take all-out measures to protect the health of the…
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