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Tirur town goes plastic-free

Friday, 03 January 2014 05:27 administrator
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The Hindu               03.01.2014

Tirur town goes plastic-free

C. Mammootty, MLA, inaugurating the ‘plastic-free Tirur town’ project at Tirur on Thursday.
C. Mammootty, MLA, inaugurating the ‘plastic-free Tirur town’ project at Tirur on Thursday.

Tirur town was declared plastic-free on Thursday, thanks to a joint initiative by the Tirur Chamber of Commerce and Tirur municipality.

All houses, business establishments, and educational institutions are being given bags for collecting plastic waste.

The waste thus collected will be taken away by a firm for disposal every week. The municipality has made an agreement with a Nilambur-based group for plastic collection.

The Tirur Chamber of Commerce is supplying bags to all houses and other establishments in the town.

“The project is being piloted in the town. In the next phase, it will be expanded to other wards of the municipality,” said P.P. Abdul Rahman, general secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. C. Mammootty, MLA, inaugurated the project at a function held at Tirur on Thursday. Thunchathu Ezhuthachan Malayalam University Vice Chancellor K. Jayakumar was the chief guest.

Tirur Chamber of Commerce president P.A. Bava, Tirur municipal chairperson K. Safiya, vice-chairman Raman Kutty, municipal standing committee chairman for health P.I. Raghunath, Deputy Superintendent of Police K.M. Saidali, and Mr. Abdul Rahman spoke.

 

Cleaning drive

Friday, 03 January 2014 05:22 administrator
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The Hindu               03.01.2014

Cleaning drive

As part of the HDMC’s special cleaning drive, cleaning work will begin at wards 1,3,6 and 22 in Dharwad and ward 24, 26, 32, 37, 42, 47, 45, 55 and 61 in Hubli on Friday from 9.30 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to a release.

 

Sanitation workers given sweets, identity cards

Thursday, 02 January 2014 06:10 administrator
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The Hindu              02.01.2014

Sanitation workers given sweets, identity cards

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Mayor Mohd. Majid Hussain and GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar distributed sweets and identity cards to sanitation workers at the head office on Wednesday on the occasion of New Year. He appreciated the efforts of the sanitary staff in making Hyderabad a pollution-free and clean city.

Different companies and corporate offices had come forward to sponsor sweet boxes to the entire sanitation staff of GHMC in recognition of the vital role they play in maintaining the city, he said.

According to a press release, the programme was taken up in all the 150 wards and sweet boxes were distributed to 24,000 sanitation workers.

Mayor visits orphanage

The Mayor visited ‘Anees Ul Gurba’, which was established in 1921, near Nampally Railway station and Amanvedika Snehaghar Boy’s Home near Bible house, Secunderabad, and celebrated the New Year with the orphaned children and distributed sweets and fruits to them, a press release said.

 
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