at the annual dasara expo on the karnataka exhibition authority kea grounds stalls are openly giving plastic bags to customers to carry their purchases these shops the food zone and the three gardens in the vicinity are together generating around 500kg of garbage per day including carry bags disposable bottles and other plastic items mcc commissioner g jagadeesha said that despite awareness campaign and raids on shops distribution of plastic carry bags has continued on the kea grounds though below 20 micron plastic carry bags are banned across the city the small and big shops at the venue including those selling clothes and home appliances are giving them to customers mysuru the mysuru city corporation claims that it has waged a war against plastic carry bags by prohibiting their use by shopkeepers and the public mcc staff had visited the grounds two times in a month and seized plastic carry bags from shops and warned the owners against their use kea chief executive officer nm shashikumar told toi that kea had organized several awareness programmes on restriction of plastic carry bags at the kea grounds spread over 80 acres a total of 125 stalls are situated in the a block 20 stalls in b block and 46 stalls are accommodated in the c block a meeting of the deputy commissioner and the district officials will be called to discuss the issue and further plan of action he said at present about 25 kea personnel are on duty to ensure cleanliness on the premises he added this is despite clear direction by the kea that cloth or paper bags should be use as an alternative to the plastic ones both the mcc and kea have failed to take action against the shop owners who are flouting norms however the sight of plastic bags littered all over the dasara exhibition ground tells a different story