Nearly 20,000 schoolchildren from 96 local bodies in Ernakulam will converge as part of a children-driven Haritha Sabha for deliberating on various waste management-related issues this Children’s Day on November 14.
Children’s Haritha Sabha is a novel concept designed as part of the waste management-related activities carried out as part of the Litter Free Kerala Campaign. It will be held in all the 96 local bodies with the participation of 150-200 students, girls and boys in equal proportion, representing all schools. Nodal officers have been selected at the local body and school levels for the programme.
Each Haritha Sabha will be controlled by a panel of five students to be selected by the local body concerned in consultation with schools. Considering the large number of schools within the Kochi Corporation limits, multiple Haritha Sabhas at the regional level may be held. It may be in due course made a regular affair.
