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36 panchayats in Madurai district get awards

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Source : The Hindu Date : 20.06.2009

36 panchayats in Madurai district get awards

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: ‘Nirmal Gram Puraskar’ awards were given to 36 panchayats in the district under the Total Sanitation Campaign here on Wednesday. District Collector N. Mathivanan gave away the awards and said that improving the sanitary conditions in the village stands as the basis for the development of the village. Madurai has 431 panchayats; out of which 36 panchayats have maintained sanitation and hygiene to be qualified to receive the awards. He said that the remaining villages should also strive to make their villages clean to receive awards.

The Total Sanitation Campaign, a flagship programme launched by the Centre, Nirmal Gram Puraskar is given to each such panchayat which gets individual toilets constructed in all houses, ensures 100 per cent sanitation in schools and anganwadis, promoting vermi-compost, and rids the village of the despicable practice of open defecation, dry latrines and manual scavenging.

Government has been taking necessary steps to build individual toilets and public toilets.

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 June 2009 06:59
 

Garbage dump inspected

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Source : The Hindu Date : 20.06.2009

Garbage dump inspected

Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI: Mayor S.Sujatha on Friday inspected the Corporation’s garbage dump at Ariyamangalam.

Accompanied by Deputy Mayor M.Anbazhagan, Corporation Commissioner T.T.Balsamy, and other officials, the Mayor inspected the manufacture of bio-compost carried out by the Kalki Service Trust.

About 400 tonnes of solid wastes collected from the city is being dumped at the yard every day. About 15 to 20 tonnes of bio-manure was being produced by the Trust everyday.

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 June 2009 06:57
 

Corporation to focus on hygiene in primary schools

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Source : The Hindu Date : 20.06.2009

Corporation to focus on hygiene in primary schools

K.V. Prasad

Health camps will be held for students, says Corporation Commissioner

Photo: M. Periasamy

Attentive listeners: Urban health nurses of Coimbatore Corporation being trained in accessing information by using computers. —

COIMBATORE: Apart from focussing on improving the quality of education, the Coimbatore Corporation has drawn up measures to ensure health and hygiene among the students in its schools.

Teaching personal hygiene and clean toilet habits and also conducting periodical dental, eye and general health camps are among the many measures the Corporation is planning to carry out from this academic year.

The main focus is on all the 45 primary schools where the approach of teaching them while young is to be adopted.

Besides, 12 middle schools that have primary sections will also be covered.

“Three urban health nurses are to be posted in each of these schools to monitor the children and teach them clean habits,” says Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra.

“The health nurses are a good resource not being used properly. This programme will use their potential,” he says.

“They will provide health and basic hygiene education to the students.”

Orientation for the nurses began on Thursday with sessions on accessing information through computers.

The Corporation will conduct basic health check-up camps in each of these schools to identify children with general health problems.

Specific problems will be identified through eye and dental camps. Mobile dental clinics may carry out check-up and scaling.

All these constitute primary health care for students in their schools, the Commissioner explains.

The schools will also have user-friendly toilets and the children will be taught how to use these.

The Commissioner points out that most of the children come from very poor families.

They need to be told of the consequences of open defecation and urination.

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Large images of bacteria and viruses will be displayed in the schools in order to warn the children of the risks from unclean habits.

“We need to tell them about some basic things relating to healthy food and practices,” the Commissioner says.

All the Corporation schools will have dining halls and plates will be provided to students.

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 June 2009 06:48
 


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