City Development Plan - Municipal

Chapter ñ10 Final Report: Thiruvathipuram Municipality
to semi urban characteristics of the town there are not many residential colonies in
the city. Due to this fact, community level organizations such as residence welfare
associations do not exist in the town. Street plays and ward wise meetings are
conducted to motivate the people.
Community Education: The steps involved in implementing and ensuring community
participation will comprise formulation of neighborhood communities, residential
welfare associations or other community organizations, identification and
mobilization of NGOs and other social welfare groups in the town.
Conduct Sanitation Campaign: Vigorous sanitation campaign across the town could
also be taken up emphasizing the need for storage and segregation, recycling and
reduction and local composting of wastes. In these campaigns, the school children
and NGOs shall also be involved so that the message of the campaign reaches the
community.
Campaigning and Environmental Awareness: Media is another important tool in
environmental education, hence extensive campaigning through electronic media,
print media, mass media and other means on environmental sanitation and solid
waste management could carry out
The land fill site is identified based on study conducted by the Department of
Remote sensing, Anna University. The site is around 20 km from the municipality
Figure 10.1: Location of sanitiary landfill site for Thiruvathipuram at Kadalmangalam Village
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