The Hindu        15.12.2011

MCC wins award for garbage management

Special Correspondent

Mangalore City Corporation has been presented with an
excellence award for the first position in solid waste management in the
second international conference on solid waste management organised by
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, last month, according to Mayor Praveen.

The
Mayor told presspersons here on Wednesday that the Centre for Quality
Management System at the university had organised the conference on
“solid waste management and exhibition on municipal services, urban
development, public works, and clean technology” from November 9 to 11
in Kolkata.

Mangalore City Corporation had shared the first position in receiving the award with Mysore City Corporation, he said.

Chairman
of the conference Sadhan K. Ghosh and a professor at the university
said that Mangalore and Mysore City Corporation had shared the first
position among the three city corporations in the category of tier II
city civic bodies having more than three-lakh population and assessed
for their solid waste management. The third civic body assessed was
Durgapur City Corporation.

Mr. Ghosh said a team of
the centre had visited Mangalore in October for assessing its solid
waste management system. Mangalore and Mysore City Corporations were
chosen for the first position based on cer tain criteria of assessment.
He said that the team members were in Mangalore for three days.
Mangalore city was much cleaner when compared with many other tier II
cities.

Mangalore City Corporation had bagged second
position for solid waste management in the first international
conference on solid waste management in 2009, he said.

He said that a biogas plant had become operational in city and some roads had been concreted.