JAMSHEDPUR: Ahead of the annual Swachhata Survekshan, the Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) has embarked on a drive to make the residents aware of making compost at home.The novel initiative of JNAC has been taken up with an aim to make the streets of the Steel City look clean and the urban body has announced that it will carry out public awareness campaigns through workshops to explain benefits of converting left over edible stuff into useful material such as incense sticks and toilet cleaners.Towards achieving the target, the notified area authorities have resolved to work separately with vegetable vendors, fruit traders, temple volunteers and household members among others by providing the know-how of re-cycling wastes instead of throwing them away."We have constituted a special team under city manager Ravi Bharati to engage with the stakeholders and organise workshops on regular basis to explain how leftover vegetables could be converted in useful compost, fruits into toilet cleaners and puja material (flowers) into incense sticks," JNAC's special officer Krishna Kumar said.He further said, "Instead of throwing the food waste, families will be taught to produce compost at residential colonies on a large scale."Private and public agencies will be roped in to achieve the objectives of cleanliness in the city as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission survey of 2019, which is likely to begin in the first fortnight of January, Kumar added.

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