: It’s about cleaning up a municipality, the Sri Lankan way.
Aimed at remodelling itself into a cleaner township along the lines of Colombo, the Angamaly municipality in Ernakulam is looking to join hands with the Sri Lanka capital city for adopting its mechanisms of waste management. A 10- member team representing the municipality will soon be going on a five-day visit to Colombo to learn about its waste treatment plants and related programmes.
Benny Moonjeli, chairman of the municipality, said the visit was being held in response to an invitation thrown by Sri Lankan Food Security Minister Gamini Jayawickrama Perera to study the clean and green city programmes implemented by the Colombo civic authority, which reshaped the war-torn city in a record time. “We had an interaction with the minister last week, during which, he offered us to share the knowhow of its waste disposal practices in the city,” he said.
During the interaction, the minister also proposed collaboration in areas of food and civil supplies between Sri Lanka and Kerala, which include student exchange programmes, training modules for government officials and investment promotion, among others.
