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GREEN IDEAS: Chennai Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni (second from left) takes a look at an exhibition on sustainable city plans developed by architecture students at a seminar on Wednesday. Chennai: People who use roads and pavements as their personal vehicle parking lots are hijackers of urban public spaces, Chennai Police Commissioner G. Nanchil Kumaran said here on Wednesday. At a ‘World Habitat Day’ seminar on developing safe cities held at Anna University, Mr. Kumaran encouraged people to be responsible citizens who respected the rights of others. “If you want to own a car, ensure you make arrangements for parking space. Otherwise, you are denying pedestrians their right to public property,” Mr. Kumaran told the seminar on ‘developing safe cities’. The seminar was organised by the School of Architecture and Planning of Anna University. He urged residents of the city to involve themselves in community policing. Residents of large apartment complexes could volunteer with the police once a month to improve the security in their localities, he suggested. Corporate firms could also strengthen their social responsibility outreach programmes. A similar appeal for better public participation came from Chennai Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni. Garbage clearance was a short-term problem that would be tackled, but issues such as environmental degradation caused by poor solid waste management were long-term concerns, he said. Source segregation of waste at home could cut the amount of garbage generated in the city by 50 per cent, Mr. Lakhoni said. He encouraged people to compost biodegradable kitchen waste and dispose of only the non-biodegradable waste. Residents of multi-storeyed apartments could compost biodegradable waste in containers on their terrace if they did not have space at home, he said. Safe futureAnna University registrar K. Jayaraman said the urban population in Tamil Nadu was growing fast,of late and it was above the national average. Hence, cities would have to plan for a sustainable and safe future for the new generations, Mr. Jayaraman said. Suresh Kuppuswamy, Director of Centre for Human Settlements, Anna University, and S. Ravi, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Anna University, also spoke at the seminar. An exhibition on innovative concepts for a sustainable city was organised.
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