The city Corporation will organise Haritha Sabha in all the hundred wards on June 5 to assess the progress of the various steps taken for waste management at the ground-level and to create awareness among the public. The meetings are being organised as part of the ‘Malinyamuktha Nava Keralam’ campaign initiated by the Local Self-Government department. Health Standing Committee Chairperson Jameela Sreedharan presented the plan for a cleanup campaign to be organised along with the hairtha sabhas at a council meeting here on Friday.
At the Haritha Sabhas, the need for processing biodegradable waste at source or by handing it over to any scientific, community-based treatment facility and to ensure 100% collection of non biodegradable waste by haritha karma senas, which have now been activated in all wards. All the waste dumping points in all the wards will be cleared and waterbodies cleaned up.