Get ready to pay more for half-litre milk packets

Soon, buying one-litre milk packets will make more sense as the Modi government has asked dairy firms to incentivise these over the smaller packs.

The dairies have also been told to halve plastic use by Gandhi Jayanti (2nd October).

In a meeting yesterday, the Animal Husbandry & Dairying Secretary Atul Chaturvedi requested dairy federations like Amul and Mahanand to encourage reuse of plastic milk pouches.


"Reduce consumption of plastics by subsidizing price of 1 litre pack over ½ litre pack, rebate to customers for bringing back plastics, reuse of pouches for users such as Road construction, recyclers," he said in a statement.

Though the statement says nothing about hiking prices of half-litre packs, The Print has quoted some officials saying that the dairies have been asked to increase prices of these small packets to discourage people from buying them.

In his 73rd Independence Day speech on August 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had urged people to shun single-use plastic.

According to the Environment Ministry, about 20,000 tonnes of plastic waste is generated every day in the country and out of which only 13,000-14000 tonnes are collected.