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RAAC proposes waste management in select areas

M. Soundariya Preetha

This will be taken up at a cost of Rs. 16 lakh

COIMBATORE: The Residents' Awareness Association of Coimbatore (RAAC) plans to take up cleaning programmes in four locations in the city as a pilot project.

The association submitted a tender to the local body on Tuesday in this connection, said C. R. Swaminathan, its President.

`Alagana Kovai'

RAAC had initiated the "Alagana Kovai" project in about 30 colonies in the city as an effort by local people to keep their areas clean. More residential colonies had expressed willingness to participate.

The residents, with the help of student volunteers and RAAC members, cleaned the streets, drains and reserved sites, filled pot holes, cleared the shrubs and weeds on the roadside and encouraged people to segregate waste at source.

Dustbins

The association distributed dustbins for this.

Now, RAAC planned to take up work on Avanashi Road (three stretches) and R.S. Puram (two locations) at a total cost of about Rs. 16 lakh.

Mass cleaning

The Corporation would take up mass cleaning in these places before RAAC took up routine maintenance. It would look for sponsors for some areas.

RAAC would deploy people and buy equipment for sweeping the roads, clearing garbage and debris.

Trial basis

It would implement the project for seven months on a trial basis, he said.

This was expected to motivate more participation in the project.

The Corporation was expected to support it financially and with vehicles (if needed), he added.

Some self-help groups, industries and non-Governmental organisations here had come forward to take up similar works in select locations in the city.

Meanwhile, the Corporation Commissioner, P. Muthu Veeran, allayed apprehension in some quarters that the Corporation would retrench any of its existing conservancy workers (about 2,000), including the 767 substitute workers.

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