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Puppet shows to generate awareness on waste management

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Source : The Hindu Date : 26.06.2009

Puppet shows to generate awareness on waste management

Special Correspondent

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is of the view that unless it innovates, its efforts to sensitise the public to segregation of waste at source may not succeed. Apart from providing stickers with guidelines on segregation of waste at source and taking out rallies, the Corporation will conduct street plays and puppet shows as part of the sensitisation efforts.

The Corporation says its Rs.96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Scheme will be successful only if people stored biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in separate bins and handed these over to the civic body’s conservancy workers every day.

For this, the people must be provided with enough guidance on segregation and educated on how important it is for the success of the entire scheme.

The puppet shows began in the city on Wednesday. A couple of these were held in Corporation schools to sensitise the students and in Ward 25 for the general public. Ward 25 is among the nine chosen to implement a pilot project in segregation.

Artistes from Green Mother Trust staged a puppet show on segregation and storing of biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in separate bins. The Corporation said the trust was into using various methods, including street plays and puppet shows, to generate awareness on environment protection. The Corporation had engaged it to carry to all sections in the city the message on the importance of segregation of waste at source.

Watching the show at Ward 25, Collector P. Umanath said this was a very innovative way to take the message to the people.

The Collector told the public in the ward that there was nothing mysterious about segregation of waste.

He pointed out that for ages, people had been storing waste in some form or the other in their house and dumped it outside later. Now, there should be a more scientific method of storing the biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in separate bins.

Segregation would go a long way in helping the Corporation implement its solid waste management project successfully, the Collector stressed.

Last Updated on Friday, 26 June 2009 09:46
 

New traffic regulation

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Source : The Hindu Date : 25.06.2009

New traffic regulation

Special Correspondent

In and around Periyar bus stand; drivers welcome move

— Photo: K. Ganesan.

SPOT STUDY: K. Nandabalan, Commissioner of Police, inspecting new traffic arrangements at Periyar bus stand in the city.

MADURAI: In a bid to decongest traffic in and around Periyar the bus stand and the shopping complex area, the police have introduced a few changes in the arrival and departure of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation- city buses.

With an ever-increasing vehicle population, the police are compelled to examine modalities to accommodate them on the roads in a sustained manner.

Commissioner of Police K. Nandabalan who inspected the new arrangements at the Periyar bus stand and shopping complex on Monday said that the traffic pattern would be studied and alterations effected, if required.

According to police officers, instead of ‘over utilising’ the shopping complex bus stand, the arrival/departure of city buses had been compartmentalised.

In the new arrangement, city buses bound for Kariapatti shall use the TTC bus stand instead of shopping complex. This would not only save diesel consumption for the TNSTC buses but also provide the much needed space in the shopping complex. Similarly, buses towards Simakkal and Anna Bus stand can enter Periyar bus stand. Buses bound for Tirupparankundram and South Gate areas can take the No 4 bus route (Hayath Khan Road).

A senior TNSTC official said that the new arrangement would benefit them phenomenally in fuel consumption. For instance, everyday buses (single trip) which entered and exited shopping complex would now save a distance of 0.7 km per trip. On an average, 1020 buses would now stop at the roundabout every day, which means they would save 714 km.

This accounted for 140 litres of fuel saving, he added.

Some of the TNSTC drivers welcomed the new arrangement. TNSTC trade union functionaries said that the authorities concerned should evict unauthorised vendors and travel agents inside the shopping complex.

Many shoppers welcomed the move as the congestion experienced near the Netaji Road junction by pedestrians due to the movement of buses would no more be there.

Last Updated on Friday, 26 June 2009 05:16
 

Monitoring system for Siruvani Dam soon

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Source : The Hindu Date : 25.06.2009

Monitoring system for Siruvani Dam soon

Staff Reporter

Photo: K. Ananthan

Is it enough?: Collector P. Umanath (left) assessing the water position at the Siruvani Dam on Tuesday. —

Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board has planned to install a Remote Monitoring System (telemetry) connecting the Siruvani Dam with the TWAD Board office.

The system would help in round-the-clock and instant monitoring of rainfall and inflow into the reservoir.

This was disclosed to presspersons by District Collector, P. Umanath, Executive Engineer, P.Gopalakrishnan and Assistant Engineer, S. Sampathkumar.

To assess the rainfall levels, a rain gauge meter would be installed at the dam intake well site.

At present, people go to the dam site from the treatment plant at the foot hills braving the wild animals including elephant and bring in the rainfall level and storage position every day.

This led to delay and comes only at fixed time frame.

As per the new system, the rain gauge meter and systems to monitor the water level would be hooked to the TWAD office and National Informatics Centre (NIC) so as to make the statistics available at the click of a mouse round-the-clock.

The work is at the planning stage and once approved at an outlay of Rs. 10 lakh it would take about two to three months for implementation.

Considering the storage and lean season, the TWAD authorities have embarked on a mission to renew the water treatment and filtering systems at an outlay of Rs. 50 lakh.

The systems were put in place in 1984 and replacing the medium of filtering like pebbles, sand and filter house inputs would help in enhancing the efficiency of treatment.

Siruvani that flows by gradient towards the city is dependent on the monsoon while the perennial Pilloor suffered setbacks due to pipe bursts and leaks often.

Dr. Umanath and Mr. Gopalakrishnan said that in order to avoid trouble in Pilloor water supply scheme, the work for replacing the concrete pipes with mild steel pipes of 1,500 mm dia was being done for trouble-prone and frequent “burst- and leak-hit” 2.5 km stretch at an outlay of Rs. 1 crore.

The work has neared 66 per cent completion and the rest would be over in two months.

Last Updated on Friday, 26 June 2009 05:07
 


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