{"id":66645,"date":"2019-08-28T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T09:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=66645"},"modified":"2019-08-28T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:34:03","slug":"local-authorities-ban-sale-bananas-charbagh-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/local-authorities-ban-sale-bananas-charbagh-railway-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Local authorities ban sale of bananas at Charbagh Railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local administration banned the sale of bananas at the Charbagh Railway Station, Lucknow stating that the peels spread dirt at the platforms. The authorities also issued a warning that strict action will be taken against those who are found breaching the ban, according to media reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, vendors have expressed their grievances and unhappiness with this move. They said that it will not only have a negative impact on their income but will pose problems for the poor as banana is incredibly cheap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/first-woman-iaf-officer-become-flight-commander-shalizadhami-66638\">First woman IAF Officer to become Flight Commander: Shaliza Dhami<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I am not selling bananas from the past 5 to 6 days. The administration has banned its sale. Earlier, poor people use to buy bananas at least two to three times, but now most of the other fruits are expensive,&#8221; said a vendor at Charbagh station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ashish Kumar, a passenger also expressed disappointment over the ban of banana sale at the station and claimed that it is the plastic waste which is making the station dirty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0&#8220;More than banana peels, it is the plastic waste which is making the platforms dirty. They must ban the selling of plastic products at the railway station. Banana waste is organic and harmless for the environment,&#8221; said Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/delhis-feroz-shah-kotla-renamed-arun-jaitley-stadium-66619\">Delhi\u2019s Feroz Shah Kotla to be renamed Arun Jaitley Stadium<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July 2019, banana made headlines when Actor Rahul Bose\u2019s video went viral exposing the 5 Star JW Marriott Chandigarh for charging Rs 442 for two bananas. Later, the hotel was fined Rs 25000 by the Excise and Taxation Department of the Union Territory for over-charging the actor for fruits served to him in the hotel.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Local administration banned the sale of bananas at the Charbagh Railway Station, Lucknow stating that the peels spread dirt at the platforms. The authorities also issued a warning that strict action will be taken against those who are found breaching the ban, according to media reports.\u00a0 However, vendors have expressed their grievances and unhappiness with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[77,78046,830],"yst_prominent_words":[4048,21276,78041,78042,51257,78043,12954,60818,78044,15676,34844,78045,33472,4735,15025,41111,22239,40893,5616,12531],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/08\/28152123\/Bananas.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66645"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=66645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->