IMA joins hands with Suchitwa Mission

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsSetting an example for city-dwellers, around 2,000 doctors in the capital have taken to a waste-disposal scheme in their households. With the help of Suchitwa Mission and under the Clean Home Environment Scheme, the doctors under the Indian Medical Association (Thiruvananthapuram) took to the new initiative on Monday. Under the scheme, the Suchitwa Mission will set up biogas plants in their houses, the work on which is supposed to get over in two weeks’ time. If a household generates more waste, this would be treated in houses where meagre waste is generated. IMA thereby hopes to make sure that the working of the plants is foolproof. In the second phase, it has been planned to collect the waste generated in the houses and transport it to the plastic shredders run by the Corporation. An IMA press statement said that it is the first agency to tie up with Suchitwa Mission to undertake such a waste management scheme. Inaugurating the scheme, Health Minister V S Sivakumar said that it is a novel scheme which should be emulated by other agencies. Mayor K Chandrika said that the city is moving towards bigger garbage issues, which makes such initiatives a big relief. IMA president Sreejith N Kumar, Suchitwa Mission Executive Director George Chakacherry and others were present.first published:August 14, 2012, 10:58 ISTlast updated:August 14, 2012, 10:58 IST
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Setting an example for city-dwellers, around 2,000 doctors in the capital have taken to a waste-disposal scheme in their households. With the help of Suchitwa Mission and under the Clean Home Environment Scheme, the doctors under the Indian Medical Association (Thiruvananthapuram) took to the new initiative on Monday.

Under the scheme, the Suchitwa Mission will set up biogas plants in their houses, the work on which is supposed to get over in two weeks’ time. If a household generates more waste, this would be treated in houses where meagre waste is generated. IMA thereby hopes to make sure that the working of the plants is foolproof.

In the second phase, it has been planned to collect the waste generated in the houses and transport it to the plastic shredders run by the Corporation.

An IMA press statement said that it is the first agency to tie up with Suchitwa Mission to undertake such a waste management scheme. Inaugurating the scheme, Health Minister V S Sivakumar said that it is a novel scheme which should be emulated by other agencies. Mayor K Chandrika said that the city is moving towards bigger garbage issues, which makes such initiatives a big relief.

IMA president Sreejith N Kumar, Suchitwa Mission Executive Director George Chakacherry and others were present.