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Action plan to revamp garbage collection

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 22. The city Corporation Council, which met here today, decided to chalk out an action plan to revamp the garbage removal system, with cleaning operations confined to the evening hours. Cutting across party lines, councillors highlighted the need to streamline garbage collection and transport, and improve amenities for the sanitation workforce.

The Health standing committee chairman, K.C. Vikraman, said the revamp was necessitated by the Ombudsman's order to close down the temporary dumping yard at Kuriyathi. In the absence of dumping yards, the Corporation will have to work out a system for daily collection and transport to the processing plant at Vilappilsala. The Government has expressed its willingness to help the local body tide over the situation, he told the council.

The United Democratic Front (UDF) council party leader, K. Maheswaran Nair, proposed a contract system for ward-level collection of garbage. Pointing to the acute paucity of manpower for cleaning operations, he called for immediate measures to appoint temporary workers.

The Kuzhivila councillor, Attipra Asokan, said the city could not do without a dumping yard to store garbage during a crisis situation. Mr. Asokan called for constructing a new approach road to the project site and providing vehicles and communication equipment to coordinate the activities of garbage collection teams.

The Vazhuthacaud member, Narendran, called the attention of the Health standing committee to the large number of city schools with thatched sheds as classrooms. Recalling the tragic incident at Kumbakonam in which 90 school children lost their lives in an inferno, he warned that the city would witness a similar tragedy unless the Corporation took immediate steps to replace the thatching with metal sheets.

Mr. Vikraman informed the Council that the Corporation had finalised a Rs.76 lakhs contract to provide sheet roofing for all thatched school buildings before September. The meeting condoled the death of children in the Kumbakonam tragedy.

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