Civic Body Organises Workshop on Solid Waste Management
Sarkar Darbar Bureau
Jalandhar, May 31
Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Jalandhar Diparva Lakra today called upon the Principals of all the government and private schools in the district to come forward for developing their schools as ‘Plastic Free Zone’.
Addressing the gathering during a workshop on Solid Waste Management organized by the civic body for the School Principals here at the local KMV Sanskriti School, the Commissioner, accompanied by the Joint Commissioner Municipal Corporation Aashika Jain, said that in order to avoid environmental hazards the school Principals must ensure that use of plastic was completely banned in the school premises.
He said that disposable material must be completely prohibited in the school canteens along with the plastic bags. Lakra said that plastics play a major havoc with the health of the residents due to need of the hour was to ban them in school premises.
Dwelling on another point, the Commissioner said that all the government schools where Mid Day meal was offered must ensure that waste generated while preparing the meal was duly composted as per Solid Waste Management Rules 2016.
He said that the waste must be disposed off with the through Pit Composting technique being adopted by the Municipal Corporation.
Lakra said that the civic body has already set up Pit Composting Unit at Government Senior Secondary School Nehru Garden adding that the other Principals could also use the same technique to compost this waste.
Batting for mass awareness campaign amongst the students to make them aware of solid waste management, the Commissioner said that the students must be made aware of the benefits of the source segregation for proper disposal of the waste.
He exhorted the schools to encourage the students for ensuring source segregation at their homes so that Jalandhar could be made clean, green and pollution free.
Lakra announced that after the summer vacations were over the Municipal Corporation would assess the performance of schools on the themes of plastic free zones, pit compositing and source segregation adding that as per the performance of schools the civic body would select 10 best performing schools out of them.
On the occasion District education officer Harvinder Pal Singh, District Guidance Counselor Surjit Lal and others were also present.
