Ahead of the launch of the segregated waste collection drive on June 5, Coimbatore Corporation has asked its workers to educate the public on segregating waste.
A release issued by the civic body at the end of a review meeting Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan had on Saturday said the city’s residents would have to segregate the waste into degradable and non-degradable and should not dump the waste into drains.
To ensure that they did so, the Corporation’s field staff should educate the residents. They should erect hoardings with messages on segregation so that the Swachh Bharat initiative would become a success.
The release said that the Commissioner also reviewed the effectiveness in enforcing the ban on the manufacture, sale, and use of plastics with less than 50 micron thickness. Ever since the Central Government notified the new Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules, the Corporation went after the manufacturers, sellers and users by levying penalty. And, he asked the officials to continue the anti-plastic drive.
In the meeting, the Commissioner reviewed the health wing’s anti-mosquito/anti-malarial drive too. He urged the sanitary officers, sanitary inspectors, supervisors to identify and destroy mosquito breeding sources on a war-footing, ahead of the South-West Monsoon.
The Corporation also wanted schools and colleges to clean their water tanks, filters and kitchen and store room, if they served food/noon meal and maintain register for the same. The kitchen and store room should also be maintained pest-free, the release added.
