Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, at the launch of ‘Swachh Udupi Mission–Countdown Begins’ programme in Udupi on Wednesday. more-in C. Srinivasan, Project Director, India Green Services, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, unveiled a plan for making Udupi a garbage-free district by October 2, 2018, here on Wednesday. Speaking at the launch of Swachh Udupi Mission–Countdown Begins programme organised by the district administration and the zilla panchayat here, Mr. Srinivasan said that the segregation of waste would be done in a 30 % + 30 % + 30 % + 10% model. This would be implemented in all the 158 gram panchayats (GPs) and all four Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in the district. Under the first 30 %, big educational institutions, places of worship and big organisations would have to segregate their waste into organic and inorganic waste and dispose it of on their own premises. In the second 30 %, haircutting saloons, chicken stalls, small eateries would have to segregate their waste. They would have to form their own associations as it would help in segregating and disposing of the garbage either by themselves or handing it over to self-help groups (SHGs). The third 30% would deal with households. Each household would be provided with two buckets — green for putting organic waste and red for putting inorganic waste. This would be collected twice a day by SHGs at a price of just ? 3 per day. The last 10 % would comprise public spaces such as gardens whose cleanliness would be maintained by the authorities, he said. Later, speaking to presspersons, Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis said that already three gram panchayats, Varambally, Gangolli and Nitte, had been chosen for implementation of pilot project of Swachh Udupi. In these villages, 250 houses each would be chosen for the pilot project. The pilot project will go on for three months. Once this was successfully implemented, it would be implanted in the remaining 155 gram panchayats. So too, it would be taken up in two wards each in all the four ULBs for the first three months, then implemented throughout the ULBs in the next three months. Earlier, Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, launched the programme.

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