STATE WIDE SANITATION DRIVE LAUNCHED
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy launched a year long state wide Sanitation drive"Suichitwotsavam 2011 on Sunday 2nd October,2011. The drive aims to co-ordinate and expand various projects and mobilise funds from centrally sponsord schemes to attempt a major campaign for waste management at various levels in the state. The Drive was not a temporary attempt against out break of contagious diseases, but a major effort to find a lasting solution to the challenge posed by a lack of proper waste- management projects in the state.
this is our last chancee to contain the recurring out break of diseases' Finance Minister K.M Mani said the sanitation drive shoukd detail all aspects right from cllection to the final processing of waste. This years's state Budget had a special provision for waste management.
The campaign envisaged replacing the existing waste managemen t system in small and mid sized municipalities in the state with new technology. At a grama Panchayat level, the government would meet 75 percent of the cost of the waste management project, to a maximum of Rs 35 lakh. The government plannend to introduce e- toilets in public places and those who came forward to start them would get up to 50 percent of the cost as subsidy. There were plans to bring ina comprehensive sanitation policy for the state and to enact stringent rules against dumping places and wter bodies.
Prof. John Kurakar
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy launched a year long state wide Sanitation drive"Suichitwotsavam 2011 on Sunday 2nd October,2011. The drive aims to co-ordinate and expand various projects and mobilise funds from centrally sponsord schemes to attempt a major campaign for waste management at various levels in the state. The Drive was not a temporary attempt against out break of contagious diseases, but a major effort to find a lasting solution to the challenge posed by a lack of proper waste- management projects in the state.
this is our last chancee to contain the recurring out break of diseases' Finance Minister K.M Mani said the sanitation drive shoukd detail all aspects right from cllection to the final processing of waste. This years's state Budget had a special provision for waste management.
The campaign envisaged replacing the existing waste managemen t system in small and mid sized municipalities in the state with new technology. At a grama Panchayat level, the government would meet 75 percent of the cost of the waste management project, to a maximum of Rs 35 lakh. The government plannend to introduce e- toilets in public places and those who came forward to start them would get up to 50 percent of the cost as subsidy. There were plans to bring ina comprehensive sanitation policy for the state and to enact stringent rules against dumping places and wter bodies.
Prof. John Kurakar
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