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`Alagana Kovai' launched at Ramalingam Nagar

M. Soundariya Preetha

A place has been identified for community composting

CLEAN SWEEP: Residents of Ramalingam Nagar and members of the Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore taking part at the `Alagana Kovai' campaign in the city on Sunday. - Photo: M. Periasamy

COIMBATORE: The Residents'Awareness Association of Coimbatore (RAAC) took its "Alagana Kovai" campaign to yet another residential colony in the city on Sunday.

The residents' welfare association of Ramalingam Nagar in Saibaba Colony joined hands with RAAC on Sunday to clean up their area. About 150 people of the locality cleaned the streets and removed blocks in the sewer lines.

Containers were distributed to the residents for segregation of waste at source and pamphlets on waste management were also given to them to create awareness.

Containers distributed

The executive committee member of the RAAC, G. Soundararajan, said the association distributed 150 containers for segregation of waste. It would supply more containers so that all the 400 houses in the area segregated waste at source. "We encourage composting waste at home. However, not all of them are ready to follow this initially. Hence, we have identified a place for community composting. The programme will be adopted full-fledged in a couple of months," he said.

The RAAC started the "Alagana Kovai" campaign in Bharathi Colony in Peelamedu about three months ago. It was started at Ramalingam Nagar on Sunday and talks were on for a similar programme at Ganapathimanagar, which had 22 colonies and a population of 75,000.

Objective

The objective was to encourage people to keep their locality clean through joint programmes organised by the resident welfare association of the area. The model of Bharathi Colony would be adopted in other places. Under this campaign, the residents met regularly and took up cleaning activities jointly. In Bharathi Colony, volunteers from the local schools were also taking part in the monthly cleaning programmes. It even had centralised services to cater to emergency needs such as electrical and plumbing works. Looking at the programme at Ramalingam Nagar, people from Janaki Layout evinced interest in starting a similar effort in their area, he said.

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