Coimbatore: Six months have lapsed since the city corporation launched Uram Seiya Virumbu (will to prepare compost) project for the school students with exciting prizes to promote the idea of source segregation of domestic waste and composting at home among them. Many students had participated in the project enthusiastically, but the civic body is yet to reward them as it promised.
The project announced by former corporation commissioner K Vijayakarthikeyan on last November 14 entailed the students to prepare compost with wet waste generated at their houses and take dry waste to their schools.
He had announced a gold coin each to two winning students and appreciation certificates to others, who send in their selfies with homemade compost. The very idea of this was to promote source segregation of domestic waste and home composting among the residents through their school-going wards, said a corporation official.
“The project evoked a huge response from the students. We received more than 650 selfies, while around 26,000 students submitted forms with an assurance from their parents to implement home composting. The students also brought dry waste from their houses to the schools. We subsequently collected more than 2.5tonnes dry waste from 12 schools,” the official recalled.
However, the competition started to lose its charm among both the students and the city corporation and today no one even seems to remember about it.
“The initiative was a good one. When it was gaining momentum, a series of events - examinations, transfer of senior corporation officials and enforcement of model code of conduct – played the spoilsport. Had it been executed successfully, source segregation would have been achieved to an extent by now,” the official said
Former counsellor S M Samy said this wasn’t the only project to be abandoned midway through by the city corporation. “Some announcements by the civic body are just an eyewash and the common people are affected by them. Without a council in place, who could question the corporation officials?”
Activist K Kathirmathiyon said the city corporation was losing the public trust. “How will the public trust the city corporation if it fails to fulfil even simple promises. It is important for the government body to gain the trust of the public.”
Meanwhile, a source involved in the initiative said they were planning to resume the project in consultation with the new corporation commissioner. “We also will distribute prizes to the winners at the earliest.”
The project announced by former corporation commissioner K Vijayakarthikeyan on last November 14 entailed the students to prepare compost with wet waste generated at their houses and take dry waste to their schools.
He had announced a gold coin each to two winning students and appreciation certificates to others, who send in their selfies with homemade compost. The very idea of this was to promote source segregation of domestic waste and home composting among the residents through their school-going wards, said a corporation official.
“The project evoked a huge response from the students. We received more than 650 selfies, while around 26,000 students submitted forms with an assurance from their parents to implement home composting. The students also brought dry waste from their houses to the schools. We subsequently collected more than 2.5tonnes dry waste from 12 schools,” the official recalled.
However, the competition started to lose its charm among both the students and the city corporation and today no one even seems to remember about it.
“The initiative was a good one. When it was gaining momentum, a series of events - examinations, transfer of senior corporation officials and enforcement of model code of conduct – played the spoilsport. Had it been executed successfully, source segregation would have been achieved to an extent by now,” the official said
Former counsellor S M Samy said this wasn’t the only project to be abandoned midway through by the city corporation. “Some announcements by the civic body are just an eyewash and the common people are affected by them. Without a council in place, who could question the corporation officials?”
Activist K Kathirmathiyon said the city corporation was losing the public trust. “How will the public trust the city corporation if it fails to fulfil even simple promises. It is important for the government body to gain the trust of the public.”
Meanwhile, a source involved in the initiative said they were planning to resume the project in consultation with the new corporation commissioner. “We also will distribute prizes to the winners at the earliest.”
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