Tamil Nadu - Tiruchi   

Environmental resource mapping

Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI : The District Exnora in association with college students will shortly take up an environmental resource mapping in Tiruchi, Karur, Perambalur and Pudukottai districts.

The project will map the past and present status of rivers, canals, tanks and other community assets in the districts and also give a projection on their likely condition in future taking into account the impact of the pollution, encroachments and other forms of ecological degradation. The existing system of solid waste management would also be studied as part of the survey.

The exercise comes in the wake of the recent floods and the widespread public outcry against the encroachments and degradation on water resources. Students from about 18 colleges in the districts, apart from Youth and Student Exnora members, would be involved in conducting the survey to be conducted on February 18. The Exnora would compile the findings and prepare a status report.

As a prelude, a workshop was organised in the city on Saturday to discuss methodologies for conducting the exercise for the benefit of students and faculty members of the participating colleges. The workshop was organised under the auspices of the Exnora and the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Career Development of Bharathidasan University.

Inaugurating the workshop, the Head of the Department of the Environmental Management of the university, M. Ravichandran said the project taken up by the Exnora was timelyThe Principal Advisor of Exnora International, T.K.Ramkumar, stressed the importance of ensuring a participatory approach while conducting the exercise so that the native wisdom of the villagers was also taken into account. The Field Coordinator of The Hunger Project, Gandhigram University, M.A.Thirunavukkarasu, called upon the enumerators to motivate the villagers towards protecting community resources.

The Exnora Advisor, V.Ganapathy, said there was a need to check the growing ecological imbalances and the disappearance of community resources. A similar workshop would be conducted for college students of Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapattinam districts who would take up a similar exercise in those districts with a focus on land resources.

The President of the District Exnora and P.Mohan, Director, Student Exnora, spoke.

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