Court ward residents get waste segregation bins

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Sep 20, 2013 :   Mangalore South MLA JR Lobo distributed  waste segregation bins to  residents of Court Ward  on September 19, Thursday  on behalf of the Mangalore City Corporation and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board as part of the initiative to make Mangalore Clean and Beautiful.

Speaking on the occasion, Lobo said the project aims at ensuring efficient recycling of the wastes and added in the future even e-bins will be distributed. He pointed out that the growing city of Mangalore  was generating huge  quantity of solid wastes and the need for effective waste management was more important.

Ajith S Hegde, MCC Commissioner said  the waste segregation bins were symbolically distributed today and added such programmes will be held in all wards in the future to ensure that all homes received such bins.

 Prameela, Revenue Department Deputy Commissioner.  AC Vinayraj, local corporator,  Premchandra, Devadas,  former corporators, Madhu Manohar, Environmental Engineer of the MCC and others were present.