India, one of the world's biggest rail networks has banned the sale of tea from plastic cups. Instead the country's favourite drink can only be served in earthenware pots known as kulhads. These cups are made by potters who work in traditional cottage industries. The Government says the ban on plastic makes for a cleaner, greener railway and claims the move will create thousands of steady jobs for potters. Tea-vendors screaming chai, chai is a common sound on India’s huge railway network. But now the vendors have been banned from selling their drinks in the disposable plastic cups familiar to most train travellers.Instead all the tea sold on trains and station platforms has to be served in a traditional clay cup, or kulhad. It’s a Government employment initiative to protect the livelihoods of the potters who produce them. The Indian railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav even launched his plan by serving tea to his fellow cabinet ministers in kulhads mounted on bone china saucers.
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