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Government told to take up waste management issue with urgency

Staff Reporter

Kerala Congress (J) to highlight issue during local bodies polls

A SERIOUS ISSUE: Almitra H. Patel, member, Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management, addressing a workshop on ``Waste-free Kerala'' organised by the Kerala Congress (J) in Kottayam on Friday.

KOTTAYAM: Noted environmentalist Almitra Patel has called upon the State Government, the local bodies and political parties to take up the issue of waste management with urgency.

Speaking at a State-level workshop organised by the Kerala Congress (Joseph) on ``Waste-free Kerala'' here on Thursday, she said that a society, which had gone far ahead of others in areas like public health and literacy, could never endure the type of apathy shown to the issue of waste management.

Several models were already in existence and what was needed was the will to take up the issue, she said.

P.J. Joseph, KC(J) chairman, in his presidential address said that his party would bring the issue to the fore during the ensuing local bodies elections.

The party had already launched waste management awareness programme in 100 schools, he said.

Francis George, MP, Cyriac Thomas, former Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Congress (S) leader Ramachandran Kadannappally and others spoke.

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