Kannada actor Ragini Dwivedi has said that laws alone could not help in maintaining clean cities; and stressed that this should come from within.
She was speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday after symbolically commissioning an auto tipper meant for door-to-door collection of waste under the Solid Waste Management programme at Hubballi Dharwad Municipal Corporation premises on Tuesday.
The film actor, who has been approached by the municipal corporation to be the brand ambassador for the clean city campaign under the Swachh Bharat programme, said lessons of cleanliness should begin at home. “If that happens, automatically people will start keeping their surroundings clean and subsequently it will lead to a clean city,” she said.
She said she would also appeal to residents to make use of the corporation’s initiative of door-to-door collection by dumping domestic waste in the auto tippers when they are brought to their respective localities.
Hubballi Dharwad Mayor Sudhir Saraf, Deputy Mayor Menaka Hurali, MLA Arvind Bellad, Municipal Commissioner C.W. Shakeel Ahmed, HDMC Health Officer Prabhu Biradar, chairman of the Standing Committee on Health, Education and Social Justice Shivanand Muttannavar, and others were present. Later, Ms. Dwivedi was felicitated on behalf of the corporation.
The corporation has already launched the services of the auto tippers for collecting domestic waste which is transported to the garbage yard. Already, including the one commissioned on Tuesday, 136 auto tippers have been pressed into service and the corporation is expected to receive another five in the coming days.
It is also setting up compactor stations to compress garbage collected through auto tippers. The compressed waste will then be transported to the dump yard, where a waste-to-energy plant is to be set up.
