UP CM set to enforce paan masala, gutka ban

Lucknow: The Yogi government is planning to ban manufacture and sale of paan masala and gutka in the state.

The state has already banned use of pan masala and tobacco products in the Secretariat and all other government buildings. Health minister Siddhartha Nath Singh told reporters that the present government has already taken a very serious view of the consumption of the tobacco products. He said very soon the government would take measures for closing factories manufacturing gutka and paan masala in the state.