The Hindu 17.04.2013
Get on-the-spot approval for biogas plants, pipe-composts
In just about three weeks’ time, councillors and health
staff of the city Corporation will fan out to areas under its
jurisdiction to explain the need for a decentralised garbage management
programme and provide on-the-spot approval for setting up biogas plants
and pipe-composts.
The plan is to convene a meeting
of the councillors and the health staff of the civic body at the
beginning of next week during which they will be briefed about the
initiative and of their role in mobilising people for conventions to be
held in the Corporation health circles by the end of the month. In the
first phase, conventions will be held in 25 health circles.
At
the conventions, people will be informed of the two decentralised forms
of garbage management, and if there are requests, on-the-spot approval
will be given to set up biogas plants and pipe-composts. In the case of
pipe-composts, pipes and lids will be given on the spot. Representatives
of agencies involved in the setting up of the biogas plants would be
present to clear doubts, a Corporation official told
The Hindu
.
“This is to give momentum to the decentralised
garbage management and with the conventions, people need not come to the
Corporation office to get approvals. We will also like the people to
come together so that biogas plants can be set in public places,” he
said.