Nagpur based plastic businessman commits suicide

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A Nagpur based plastic businessman has committed suicide on Friday morning. The man named, Naresh Tolani (age 51), owning a business of plastic, committed suicide in the Gandhisaagar Lake, Nagpur by drowning inside the water.

Naresh Tolani who was in this business for 3 years was in a state of depression since the plastic was banned by the government, he was facing a huge loss in his business. He left a suicide note on the lakeside of the lake in which he drowned and committed suicide.

He had written in the suicide note that, “The reason why I am committing suicide is the huge loss which I faced in the business after plastic ban, and I am solely responsible for it.”

He had incurred high loss in business and his family’s financial stability was not in a proper state. The wife of the deceased, in a tragic state now told that he had been missing from July 29, and when later we got the information of his suicide, she left with her only son are completely shattered.

Narayan was last seen by a person, during a morning walk and later his dead body was traced out from inside of the water.

A similar incident took place in Nanded, Pune in which a 35-year old businessman, his wife and two daughters were found dead at their home in Shivane on February 18, 2018 who committed suicide with his family. The deceased was said to be in a huge debt which he couldn’t repay and ultimately committed suicide.

In the year 1999, a similar proposal was given by the government but plastic ban was not enforced by then.

On November 16, 2017, Ramdas Kadam, who is a Shiv Sena politician of Maharashtra, gave the proposal to impose plastic ban in all over the state which was the 5th and final time, after which a notice had been issued to enforce plastic ban on March 23, 2018. And later, June 23 onwards, the ban was finally enforced in Maharashtra.

After the ban, various people of Maharashtra have been affected. The plastic Industry has been completely gone down and the number of suicides committed due to this is also increasing.

It was on 23rd March that the state announced the ban on manufacture, use, sale, distribution and storage of plastic materials such as one-time-use bags, spoons, plates, PET and PETE bottles and thermocol (polystyrene) items. The Maharashtra government had given three months’ time to dispose of the existing stocks, which ended on June 23.

The ban imposed by Maharashtra has hit the plastic industry very hard and has incurred losses of about Rs 15,000 crore, leaving nearly 3 lakh people jobless overnight was told by General Secretory of Plastic Bags Manufactures Association of India, Neemit Punamiya.

The job losses due to the ban has impacted state’s GDP adversely and has also increased banks’ bad loans from the plastic sector. The people are getting more and more depressed as they have become unemployed and have no other option left but to commit suicide.

Now, in the near future, we will come to know whether the state will be able to cope with the present scenario or not.