The Kochi Corporation has achieved a complete protection of 96% in deployment of volunteers. The 13 municipalities within the district have attained a complete protection of 85%, based on the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB). The knowledge was compiled as a part of steps taken by civic our bodies for administration of biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste.
The deployment of HKS volunteers as a part of the federal government’s ‘waste-free Kerala’ initiative noticed a rise within the 2024-25 fiscal. Volunteers concerned in doorstep assortment of plastic and different non-biodegradable waste have been instrumental in streamlining efforts to plug the gaps within the assortment and sorting of waste, based on an evaluation by the federal government’s Suchitwa Mission.
Urban native our bodies within the district have additionally stepped up efforts to deliver households and industrial institutions availing the providers of volunteers underneath the Haritha Mithram cellular software used for doorstep assortment of waste. Volunteers have arrange QR codes in entrance of households and industrial models as a part of the implementation of the digital software. Local our bodies can observe waste assortment and fee of person price utilizing the app. QR codes have been arrange underneath the good rubbish monitoring system that goals to streamline waste assortment and administration.
Meanwhile, civic our bodies have knowledgeable the Department of Local Self Government that many households are but to hunt the providers of HKS as they’re towards the gathering of month-to-month person price. The households need the respective civic our bodies to foot the bills for waste assortment, it’s learnt.
Published – October 17, 2025 02:19 am IST
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