Janasree Sustainable Development Mission plans to conceive and implement a waste management project in the State, KPCC spokesman and Janasree Chairman M. M. Hassan has said. Addressing a meeting at the Regional Theatre as the ‘Sustainable Development Yatra’ being led by him reached Thrissur city on Thursday, he said that waste management was a serious issue in corporations and panchayats.“Waste disposal problems in Lalur have showed the Thrissur Corporation’s inefficiency. Many other places have similar experiences. Waste management should be a mass programme. By next year, the Janasree Mission will set up 1 lakh units across the State and its several lakh members will be involved in the programme,” he said.
He said the proposed waste management project will be different from the garbage disposal activities being carried out by the Kudumbasree.“Unlike Kudumbasree workers who merely pick waste from different places and deposit it in trenching grounds, Janasree workers will go a step further and devise schemes to turn waste into manure and biogas.”He observed that mere agitations would not alleviate poverty and create jobs.“Governments alone cannot ensure social justice and financial stability to the people. Community-initiated programmes too are needed. Janasree Mission was set up to realise Gandhiji’s vision of Grama Swaraj and decentralised development.”
The Hindu, 16th October 2009
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