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Letter to the Corporation of Trivandrum

Nithin Rajan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:19:56 +0000

TidyCity has made a formal request for installation of waste disposal facilities in public places within Trivandrum city. This request has been submitted to the Secretary of the Corporation on the 19th of August (Ref# 43556).

Here’s a transcript of the request:-

Sir,

Tidycity is a voluntary association formed with the objective of promoting the idea of a clean surrounding around us. Our aim is to spread awareness and drive actions that will help keep our cities clean.

From surveys and interactions we have had with the public in Thiruvananthapuram, we have discovered that there is a perceived shortage of waste disposal points in the city, particularly in public spaces. We request that you take the necessary action to install waste disposal facilities at all public places in Trivandrum city where such a shortage exists.

To list a few places:
• Shanghumukham beach
• Veli Lake Resort
• Museum premises
• Zoo premises
• Aakkulam Resort

In places where plastics are not banned, we recommend that there be separate bins provided for non-biodegradable waste and bio-degradable waste.

We have also come across a general lack of awareness among the public regarding the necessity for segregating waste, and in general, about city waste management and the problems faced by the system thereof. To address this, we recommend that information boards be placed adjacent to the waste disposal facilities – these boards should provide general information (in Malayalam and English) on city waste management with the aim of educating the public.
An indicative list of information items that could be covered is given below:

• How city waste is processed
• Dos and Don’ts for citizens
• Details of a complaint/suggestion system.

TidyCity would be delighted to provide any assistance in the design of the waste bins and the information boards.

We request you to provide a written response to this request, with a time bound plan as to when the necessary action can be taken OR, if action cannot be taken, the reasons for the same. We intend to publish a copy of this letter and your response to this on our website (http://tidycity.org/).

An Onam message for all of us :-)

Vids — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:25:12 +0000

By Bindu Philip

On August 30th on our museum discussions, we met Soorya Krishnamurthy, who told that Onam should be celebrated only by those who love their land – those who love kerala and not by anyone whose dreams ends in the four walls of their houses, place of work etc. And I support him because those who don’t love Kerala and her trees, plants, rivers, seas and forests must not even think about Onam because Onam is the celebration of nature when all the trees, plants and animals including humans are in harmony with the nature, when millions of flowers bloom together and millions of butterflies and birds sing together to celebrate.

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But today 99 percent of the Keralites forget everything about Kerala and makes Onam just a time for purchase So what right is there for those who make our Kerala unclean and who destroy her beautiful rivers, lakes, ponds, sand and forests to celebrate Onam?

Let us keep our Kerala clean and love her and then celebrate Onam

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Save Trees
Save The World
Say No To Plastic
Don’t pollute our air , water and soil
Don’t use strong chemicals to clean
Plant more trees.
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Respect all life forms

Meeting with Corporation HO

swapin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:39:24 +0000

Today i went to the corporation office, expecting to meet the health officer, and discuss the ,matters regarding the our application for vilappilsala visit. Luckily Health officer was available there, but was so busy with works.

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I started with introducing myself, and about tidy city. Unfortunately HO shared a negative reputation, about us and maintained little doubtful about our intentions. The Officials were not comfortable with one of the posts, (or comments not clear), which contained some half truth or false statements.

Then i assured him about our intentions aims and objectives and all. and promised about removing any of such defamatory or false statements among our posts if any.

To my plea to show me that post, HO, asked his assistants to swatch on modem and visited our site from there itself, but was not able to figure out which one , ( i have strong reasons to believe that the posts which are in question are the ones which reported about another NGO, and meeting with its patrons. )

Based on the experience there i would suggest the following.

1, There shall be an editorial policy displayed on the site, clearly mentioning our intentions, aims and objectives. and make it clear that we don’t have any political affiliations.

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2, Please make sure that the posts , articles and reports which could directly or indirectly defame, the institutions of government. as well as the rumour’s, half truths, politically motivated propaganda allegations, and unconfirmed news reports. are NOT posted in our site. it can well damage our reputation.

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3, While reporting a third persons / another organisations views, pleases make sure to clearly mention that we tidy city never share such views.

4, We can express objections and criticise govt institutions and there activates, in a decent way substantiated with valid reports, documents , studies etc. but need to abstain from making comments / reports based on rumour’s and allegations and false statements.

5, Make up an urgent delegation to meet the corporation officials and clear up there doubts in this regards as early as possible.

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Say Green on WED

City Cleaner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:52:04 +0000

(As taken from http://vyganews.com)

5 Jun 2009: It is June 5 again, which means it is that time of the year when the world remembers it is time for some greenness. It is World Environment Day. In short, it is WED.

WED was first launched in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly, which means we are celebrating its 37th anniversary today. The day’s agenda is:

* Give a human face to environmental issues

* Empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development

* Promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues

* Advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future

Every year UN celebrates this day with a theme, a host city, a slogan and some events. This year’s theme and slogan is ‘Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change’. Mexico is the host city. Countries are planning to observe the day with a number of events and activities.

It is no surprise that climate change has become the focus this year. Even after increasing warnings by word of mouth, emails and websites, sessions and conferences, awareness campaigns and speeches, a good part of the world still chooses to be indifferent to the cause.

A number of youth groups and environmentalists have emerged to spread the message, to alert and seek urgent attention to the cause.

On this day, as activists all over the world keep at their efforts in telling the world ‘This is for us, this is for our children’, every one of us can stop for a moment and wonder what all the hue and cry is about anyway.

What would happen to dear Earth that has borne generations for eons? What would happen to the future generations? Before we shrug and say ‘Who knows’, we can do a little mind game. Imagine we are part of the generation yet to be born. Imagine we are those unfortunate ones who are to suffer the effects of what previous generations had done by turning away from the cries of a pained Earth. Being born into a world that was in the ruins because the people who lived there did not care for it – that is not what we want is it?

The first thing to do is shed off the thought that ‘We are safe anyway, we don’t need to worry about the future of this planet’. The earth has been a home to us all these years. It is time to give our home some attention. It is time to say ‘I care’.

Be it taking cloth bags to shop to avoid using plastic, or switching off lights you don’t need, or saving a drop of water everyday, or saving a piece of paper by printing on both sides – let it be small, but when every one of us are alert and at it all the time, it is going to make a great difference.

On this day, on WED, let us try to understand what danger we are in, and what we can do to protect our planet. On this day, each of us can make a silent oath to do our part in making the world a greener place, in making it a safe haven for generations to come.

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Villapilsala visit, the complete story

swapin — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:14:11 +0000

Bindu and srijith you may have wondered about, the letter you got from the corporation, mercilessly denying our right to inspect the works at villapilsala (they have called it as factory, maybe i don’t know)
Actually this was the whole story.

We wrote a letter to the corporation , seeking permission to visit and inspect work at, vilapillsala plant, and if required to take certified samples. The letter was wrote on behave of nine of us who agreed to visit the facility.

But the replay was, denial, due to unknown reasons.
I was really busy with some election works ( I lied you that I don’t have any political affiliation, but i had some commitment, so i had to be with that). So I could not follow up it
Now today i visited the office of the information commissioner, and they assured that we have all rights to inspect It Under section 1- J (i). And they directed me. To give an appeal to the corporation secretary. (visit http://keralasic.gov.in/images/stories/pdf/rti-act.pdf Section 1 J (i). and in Malayalam http://keralasic.gov.in/images/stories/sic/circulars/extraordinary.pdf

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I visited the corporation office, and meet the US there, and he also re assured that we have all rights to inspect it. And take samples if needed .

I think it is some sort of delaying tactics, as there is some problems giving on around there. And any way, to proceed further, i need all those replay letters , asap.

so make sure to bring all letters from corpn.

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Now for the corporation officers, Sirs we have no intention do defame disregard our city corporation, we just need to use our rights to inspect works at the plant and take samples just to do some scientific studies. Under section 1 J(i) of RTI act. Since as it is denied we are forced to move appeal. And express due thanks for your kind coorpertion in this regard.

Regards.

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