The Hindu 24.09.2009
“Solid waste management is a challenge”
Staff Reporter
| Exnora International discusses on social and technical expertise |
TOUGH TASK: The Kanyakumari District Collector Rajendra Ratinoo addressing the workshop on Wednesday.
NAGERCOIL: The state-of-art method must be followed while implementing decentralized solid waste management in different parts of the district in order to enhance the social and technical capacity, said the Collector Rajendra Ratinoo.
Inaugurating the district level workshop on decentralized solid waste management here on Wednesday the Collector said that the implementation of solid waste management was a challenge to the authorities of civic bodies.
The successful implementation of this project in a particular panchayat or municipality would be a yardstick to judge the over all achievement in the developmental activities of the administration
The district administration had been recognising Executive Officer of those town panchayats, who had successfully implemented the project. Follow up action would be important to implement any scheme, said the Collector.
The Liaison officer of Exnora International, V.Ganapathy, while speaking about the issues of waste management in India said that the local bodies were ill equipped to meet the challenges of cleaning a town as the usual practice of land filling was no longer possible.
The increased quantity of incinerated plastic and bio-medical waste also made its management difficult. The objective of the workshop was to share the social and technical expertise identified by Exnora International to elected representatives, engineers and sanitary staff of local bodies and to understand opportunities and financial obligations for the implementation of the project and to plan a joint strategic action for improvements in city or town-wide sanitation.
The Assistant Director– in-charge of Town Panchayats, T.Balachandran, the Commissioner of Kulithalai Municipality, G.Dhanalakshmi, project, co-ordinator, Exnora International, T.Vijay Anand attended the workshop.
