The Hindu      05.03.2014

13 Hope Centres of civic body opened

Thirteen Hope Centres set up by Tiruchirapalli City
Corporation to facilitate involvement of community groups in various
civic services were inaugurated by Corporation Commissioner
V.P.Thandapani on Tuesday.

Maintenance of sanitary
complexes and public toilets of the corporation would be one of the
major tasks to be vested with the community groups.

The
civic body has taken steps to maintain 385 public toilets in the 65
wards through 400 community groups comprising users in the respective
areas.

The groups would play a key role in achieving
the government objective of making the city open-defecation free by
2015. This apart, the groups would be involved in maintenance of other
public properties of the civic body, collection of garbage from
apartments, raising tree saplings, and serving notices of the civic body
to residents, Mr. Thandapani said. The civic body has established one
Hope Centre for every six wards, he said.