'Major role for residents' associations

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB. 17. The residents' associations play a major role in keeping the city clean and green, mainly by taking up public awareness programmes, the Mayor, Prof. J. Chandra, has said.

She was inaugurating a seminar on the topic, `Clean city, beautiful city', organised jointly by the Maitri Nagar Residents' Association and the State Forest Department in the Forest Headquarters here today.

Issues such as garbage processing, maintenance of hygiene, protection of the environment and water sources, checking atmospheric pollution, etc., were discussed. The aim of the seminar was to suggest ways to improve public cooperation in environment protection and cleanliness programmes.

The Mayor said the suggestions evolving from the seminar would be studied and implemented in a time-bound manner. As many as six papers were presented at the seminar.

The Corporation Health Standing Committee chairman, Mr. K.C. Vikraman, chaired the seminar. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Mr. P.K. Surendranathan Asari, also spoke.

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