Chennai, Nov 2 (PTI) A special bench of the Madras High Court was informed on Wednesday that the 'Manjappai' (cloth bags) scheme will be introduced in the High Court premises on November 10.

A submission to this effect was made by Additional Advocate-General J Ravindran to the bench of Justices N Sathish Kumar and D Bharatha Chakravarthy, when the PIL petitions to eradicate usage of plastic in hill areas, came up for further hearing today.

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Five manjappai vending machines will be installed at the Principal Seat at Chennai. A plastic crushing machine will also be installedy, the AAJ said, adding that the facilities will be inaugurated by Acting Chief Justice T Raja.

The same scheme will be extended to its bench at Madurai by the end of this month, he added.

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