The Hindu 10.11.2010
Micro-sanitation programme in Kakinada
Staff Reporter
| The objective is to involve people in making the city clean |
50 social workers have been employed with an honorarium of Rs. 150 per day
Plans afoot to impose complete ban on use of plastic bags
KAKINADA: The Municipal Corporation is taking up micro sanitation programme in 14 divisions of the city from Wednesday onwards. The objective of this programme was to make the divisions as model divisions with regard to sanitation and involve public in making the city clean.
In the selected divisions, one rickshaw each will be deputed to every 250 houses and arrangements were being made to segregate solid wastes into dry and wet wastes at the domestic level. As many as 50 social workers have been employed with an honorarium of Rs. 150 per day and these workers will be allocated to one each to every 500 houses.
Special uniform and public address system will be provided to these workers by the civic body and these workers are expected to create awareness among the residents on proper methods of solid waste management by visiting door-to-door. These workers can also issue notices to the households who are of the habit of throwing wastes into drainages.
Inaugurating the special training camp for the social workers here on Tuesday, Joint Collector and in-charge officer of the Kakinada Municipal Corporation K. Sasidhar said that plans were afoot to impose complete ban on use of plastic bags in the city. Meetings would be conducted with the representatives of the chamber of commerce and other trader groups to discuss the modalities.
Referring to the waste management programme, Mr. Sasidhar asked the social workers and rickshaw pullers to play a major role in keeping the city clean. He wanted them to bring a change in the mindset of the public with regard to waste management.
Municipal Commissioner G.S.N. Murthy, project director of the MEPMA K.Ch. Appala Naidu and other officials were present.
