Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has appealed to the Residential Colony Welfare Associations to participate in the campaign for segregation of solid municipal waste into wet and dry, and decided to give prizes for the best colony in each zone.
Colonies have to fill a self-declaration form consisting of various components for assessment about source composting — home and community, participation in awareness activities, number of households, participation in programmes conducted by the civic body, incentives to local sanitation workers, planting of saplings, open urination/defecation control, burning of garbage and open dumping points, among others.
Awards will be given away during the World Environment Day celebrations on June 5 and several voluntary agencies have already shown interest in participating in the programme. Welfare associations can obtain the self-assessment forms by sending a mail to rwas.ghmc@gmail.com or from the Office of the Deputy Commissioners of GHMC.
After filling the assessment form, RWAs have to submit the self-assessed data to rwas.ghmc@gmail.com by 31st May 2017, 6 p.m. Evaluation of the entries will be done by United Federation of RWAs (UFERWAS), GHMC Commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy said after a review meeting.
Competitions will also be held at the ward-level in the first week of every month, awarding the best auto rickshaw driver, Swachh servant maid, best hotel, best kalyana mandapam as part of the campaign, he added.
