The Hindu 14.12.2013
Plan to make Kannur a garbage-free town, says municipal chairperson
Kannur Municipal Chairperson Roshni Khalid has said the municipality will launch a comprehensive garbage disposal programme on the Republic Day to make Kannur town a model garbage-free municipality.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Friday, Ms. Khalid said the programme would be implemented in two phases.
In the first phase, Kannur would be declared a town free of plastic carry bags.
A committee comprising representatives of political parties, traders’ organisations, residents’ associations and managements of hotels and hospitals had been formed to ensure the success of the programme.
Assurance
Ms. Khalid said that the traders’ representatives had assured that they would not use plastic carry bags of less than 40 micron thickness.
The programme was being implemented jointly by the municipality and the Kerala Initiative to Save Agriculture and Nature (KISAN).
Delegation for Malaysia
The municipal chairperson also said she was part of a delegation leaving for Malaysia to study septage management.
She is among the four members of the delegation from the State.
The others are Kozhikode Mayor A.K. Premajam, Kalamassery municipal chairman Jamal Manakkadan, and government’s technical committee member T.C. Supran.
