The Hindu                   22.04.2013

Door-to-door garbage collection launched

Thanjavur Municipality has started collection of door-to-door garbage from houses as part of solid waste management.

Savithiri Gopal, chairperson of Thanjavur Municipality, inaugurated the collection of garbage in ward number 23 on Saturday.

N. Ravichandran, Municipal Commissioner, said that 18 sanitary workers would be involved in collection of garbage from door-to-door in the 815 houses in the ward. This would be extended to other wards. N. Sivanesan, Municipal Health Officer, and M. Padmavathi, councillor, were present.