Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board has asked the local civic body and other civic bodies of the state to chalk out a plan for smooth implementation of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016.

The meeting to chalk out the plan, which was held in the last week of November, saw the participation of officials from the various municipal corporations and other government agencies, including the works department. Officials have discussed various aspects of the rules.

"We have come up with a database where the plastic ma-nufacturers were registered. They will have to adhere to norms prescribed in the new rules and manufacture the items and dispose those accordingly," said an official of the pollution control board.

The officials also had detailed discussion on coming up with by-laws under the new rules. Sources said that separate plans or rules would come into force for separate cities considering the burden of waste they are generating in their localities.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is yet to implement the plastic waste management rules, which was notified by the Union government in March 2016. The civic body has also showed its inability to execute many planned projects aimed to have a control on the plastic waste burden of the city.

The BMC body had planned to construct a plastic waste treatment plant at its dumping yard in Bhuasuni. But even the project report has not been completed till now. Besides, a plastic shredding unit was also planned at the temporary transit station near Sainik School, which also failed to take off.

While the pollution control board started registering major plastic manufacturing units, the civic body had been asked to come up with a registry of the people using plastic and calculate the burden of the plastic.

A civic official, however, said they would shortly come up with a comprehensive plan to tackle plastic waste.