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Sunday, May 16, 2004

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Project to clean Grand Bazar proposed

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, MAY 15. The Pondicherry Municipality will soon embark on a project to clean the Grand Bazar by asking shopkeepers to segregate garbage at source.

Sources in the Municipality said that the over 600 shopkeepers both small and big ones have been asked to help the civic body in keeping the shopping complex, situated in the heart of the town, clean.

Some 15 tonnes of garbage was generated daily in the market and 80 per cent of that was organic material that could be made into compost and manure. The Municipality would be supplying the organic materials to a self-help group so that they could convert it to manure and sell it. The SHG would not be charged anything for the garbage. The remaining non-biodegradable materials would be again segregated into recyclable and non-recyclable material, they said.

"Since there is a space constraint inside the market complex, we will be placing small bins in identified locations so that it doesn't disturb the movement of people and goods. We have asked wholesale sellers to dump their garbage in the large bins kept outside the market instead of dumping them on the pathways inside", they said.

Already a survey of the shopkeepers was completed and the officials of the civic body held discussions with them to take part in this effort.

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