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TIRUPAT: As part of the ‘Clean and Green Drive’ launched in the temple city of Tirupati on Thursday, a wide range of schemes were grounded. They were launched under the joint aegis of GTZ-Advisory Services in Environment Management Programme and the Tirupati Municipal Corporation. Among the participants were Dr. Andreas Pfeil, Head, Economic Cooperation and Development, Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany, New Delhi, Rolf Suelzer, Country Director, GTZ-ASEM, P.S. Sodhi, NationalCoordinator, UNDP and senior officials of the union ministry of Environment and Forests. Project sanction It may be recalled that the government had sanctioned ‘Ecocity Project’ to the Tirupati Municipal Corporation for a planned development of the town especially in the core area covering the Govindarajaswamy temple surroundings, temple tank area, railway station and RTC bus station thronged daily by thousands of pilgrims from all over the country besides some from abroad. Some of the programmes taken up as part of the drive today were unveiling of sign boards, distribution of dust bins, saplings to the municipality, APSRTC, TUDA, LES groups and RWAS, distribution of uniforms and sanitation kits to the PEN India sanitation workers, awareness materials to the SHGs. Initiatives Presentations were also made on topics like ‘eco-city project initiatives’, Community-based Municipal solid-waste management initiatives in Tirupati, Capacity development in Tsunami-affected areas. Besides interaction with women SHGs on environmental initiatives at a plastic weaving unit, there were also field visits to areas like MSW management demonstration project, plantation drive areas. Participants Among the other participants were the Chairman of the TTD Trust Board, B. Karunakar Reddy, MLA (Tirupati), M. Venkatramana, TTD’s Executive Officer, K.V. Ramanachary, Chairman of the Tirupati Urban Development Authority, Ch. Bhaskar Reddy and the Municipal Commissioner, T. Sakala Reddy. Meanwhile a band of leprosy-inflicted patients were said to have presented a memorandum to the high-profile environmental group seeking their intervention in saving hundreds of full-grown trees. These trees were standing on the TTD-run leprosy hospital campus here from being felled to develop a housing colony. The team promised to take up the matter with the concerned.
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