CLEAN KUMILY AND GREEN KUMILY

                                      CLEAN KUMILY AND GREEN KUMILY


    The customers in the tourist town of Thekkady carrying their own paper or cotton bags while going shoping. the plastic ban implemented in the Thekkady last April,2011. The panchayat authorities started a public campaign to ban the use of plastic in the panchayat area.
     It was a Herculean task for the panchayat to supply cotton and paper bags in the town. Kudumbasree units make cotton and paper bags to be supplied to the shops. The ban supplied tp the shops. The ban  on plastic was implemented wiith the support of  the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR), which implemented it inside the forest area as part of the Responsibel Tourism project. Now the clean Kumily and Green Kumily" a society of people formed by the  Panchayat, is actively implementing the ban.

                                                                                                     Prof. John Kurakar