bangalore the next time you plan a trip to lalbagh make sure you leave your plastic carry bags at home and think of more ecofriendly options come april 1 citys schoolchildren will guard all entrance points of lalbagh to check the bags of visitors and replace the plastic ones with cloth bags the students will also perform street plays and even help in cleaning the garden this initiative is a part of a monthlong campaign undertaken by karnataka state pollution control board kspcb and department of horticulture to make lalbagh plasticfree though this is not the first initiative to prohibit the use of plastics inside lalbagh we are hopeful that people would pay heed to childrens advice said h c sharat chandra kspcb chairman there are only 20 guards to monitor the 240acre lalbagh while around 3000 visitors come to lalbagh the number increases to 8000 on weekends and touches around 30000 on special occasions since 2002 the authorities have made efforts to enforce no to plastic bags campaign for lalbagh through various initiatives but have not been very successfulwhen asked what would be the next step if this programme too fails g s vasanth kumar horticulture directorate replied we will start fining visitors from april 15 onwards the fine will start from rs 50 to rs 500