NGT’s regional team impressed with Tiruchy’s waste management system

The 16-member team headed by former judge of Madras High Court P Jyothimani from the NGT’s Regional Monitoring Committee (South) visited the city to check the methods followed by the Corporation in managing solid waste.

The team was assigned to visit various cities and towns in the southern states to find out whether the civic bodies have been effectively implementing the solid waste management projects and beautification works.

The purpose of their visit was to identify which local body had efficient ideas or plans to handle its wastes and recommend the best practices followed by a city to others.

The committee comprised top officials of Urban Development Department and Pollution Control Boards from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep.

They first visited the Micro Compost Centre (MCC) in Kulumikkarai, followed by the Science Park in Anna Nagar Link Road. Thereafter, the team monitored the door-to-door garbage collection work in Thillai Nagar. The committee members also interacted with the sanitary workers and the residents at Thillai Nagar. They also appreciated the QR Code system done for monitoring door-to-door garbage collection.

Thereafter, the RMC also checked the bio-waste management system followed in a city hospital and visited the MCCs in Woraiyur. The members held a meeting there and discussed the various solid management strategies and issues.

“We have inspected five places in Tiruchy. We came to know that the Corporation is successfully undertaking 100 per cent garbage segregation at the source. We are glad that Tiruchy is following a successful solid management system similar to those in Bengaluru and Tirupati,” said P Jyothimani. Officials said that they are also consulting experts for finding better waste management facilities.