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Mosquito menace: two canals to be cleaned

— Photo: S. Mahinsha

Stock-taking time: Mayor C. Jayan Babu inaugurating the fifth anniversary celebrations of the solid-waste management system in the city on Sunday organised by the Friends of the Urban Poor.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The city corporation is planning to clean the Pattom and Thekkanankara canals that pass through the city as part of its drive against mosquitoes, Mayor C. Jayan Babu has said.

He was inaugurating the fifth anniversary celebrations of the solid-waste management system in the capital city. The programme was organised here on Sunday by the Friends of the Urban Poor and the Community Development Society.

Mr. Babu said his office had received an urgent advisory from the Centre to the effect that Thiruvananthapuram was among the places where an outbreak of chikungunya was most likely.

He said the Kudumbasree units involved in lifting garbage from households should continue the good work. It was imperative that garbage was segregated before being taken to the Vilappilsala waste treatment facility. Not all kinds of garbage could be converted into fertilizer. Hence, only that which could be so converted should be taken there. Already thousands of tonnes of garbage was lying at that facility around which there was human habitation. “The other day, I got a phone call from a person who had recently been to foreign countries. He wanted the corporation to stop collecting garbage from homes on a daily basis. He pointed out that no other country had that kind that of facility,” Mr. Babu said.

The corporation was mulling the introduction of welfare schemes for those engaged in garbage collection, he added.

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