Kulithalai is first civic body to get City Sanitation Plan
Plan envisages efficient drinking water supply, waste management.
The municipality of Kulithalai has become the first civic body in the State to get the mandatory City Sanitation Plan under the National Urban Sanitation Policy.
The plan, prepared by Exnora International with financial support from Water Aid, was presented to the municipal council for its consideration and approval.
The document delineates an integrated and holistic action programme for the development of the municipality free of flies and mosquitoes with adequate water supply, access to toilet facilities for all, proper drainage and solid waste management system.
The programme envisages proper handling and disposal of the full cycle of civic garbage from source segregation to income generation through resorting to bio-degradable and recyclable waste practices. The plan intends to meet the civic sanitation needs of the town until 2040.
Exnora International advisor V.Ganapathy formally handed over the plan document to the chairman of Kulithalai municipality, Pallavi Raja, in the presence of municipal commissioner Kalaimani, and detailed the salient features of the purpose to the councillors and officials.
The Union Ministry for Urban Development has mandated preparation of city sanitation plan exclusively for each urban civic area for getting fund or aid towards development activities in future. The State government too has been encouraging the municipalities to adopt the best practices for waste management and drinking water supply.
Mr. Pallavi Raja said the council would study the plan document in detail and would forward that with its observation and recommendations to the State government for availing itself of any development oriented funding in future.
He appreciated the efforts of Exnora International and Water Aid besides lauding dedicated role of the professionals who prepared the document meticulously. He hoped that the plan would help in better civic waste management within the municipality making it a pioneering effort in waste management technology.
Mr. Ganapathy said the CSP had been prepared with the active participation and cooperation of all the stakeholders and technicians in mapping the details and data provided by the Centre for DEWATS Dissemination, Bangalore.
Exnora programme officers K. Mohanasundaram and Veliappan, explained the rating system of National Urban Sanitation Policy and the councillors rated the current facilities in the town as per the policy guidelines when they understood what the document meant for their town and its future development.
