With some exhibitors at the ongoing India International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan openly flouting the rules by giving away goods in plastic bags to customers, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and the State Environment Ministry have decided to punish the defaulters.

Twelve officials of the DPCC and six of the Environment Ministry met representatives of the India Trade Promotion Organisation on Tuesday evening and took a serious note of those contravening the rules. The India Trade Promotion Organisation was told in clear terms that from next year it must ensure that exhibitors give an undertaking that they would not use plastic bags.