ZP forms task forces in gram panchayats to ensure cleanliness

‘They should facilitate scientific waste handling thereby ushering in sustainable development of villages’

The Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat has formed cleanliness and hygiene task forces in every gram panchayat to ensure solid waste segregation and management and also for villages to remain open defecation-free and other related cleanliness issues. Announcing this here on Monday, ZP CEO Kumara said that the panchayats were entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining the overall hygiene and cleanliness in their limits. It was their responsibility to ensure that residents segregate domestic waste into wet and dry and convert wet waste on their premises into manure, prevent throwing of trash in public places apart from many other tasks under the Swatch Bharath Mission. The task forces, Mr. Kumara said, have to ensure scientific disposal of wet and dry wastes, get closed circuit television cameras installed at black spots to prevent littering, undertake patrolling near black spots round the clock in shifts, register FIR with the police against those throwing litter, facilitate the gram panchayat to impose fines on such people and also facilitate communication to the Transport Department to cancel registration of vehicles throwing trash in public places.