Stop using single-use plastics: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday clarified he was against single-use plastics and not against the use of plastics, while speaking to party members who had come to the Chennai airport to receive him.

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said he was not against the use of plastics but was against single-use plastics.

He was speaking to party members who had come to the Chennai airport to receive him. "I am not saying use of plastic should be stopped. What I said single-use plastics should be stopped," Modi said.

He said the message against single-use plastics should be taken to the people across the country during the padayatra to be undertaken as part of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

"It is always a delight to be back in Chennai. 'Chennai Makkallaii Santhippathil Magizhchi' - happy to meet people of Chennai," he said.