Collector K.Rajamani unveiling a bicycle which would be offered as prize to school students in Tiruchi on Friday. | Photo Credit: A_MURALITHARAN more-in The Tiruchi Corporation on Friday launched a prize scheme to drive home the importance of segregation of solid waste at source to city residents through school children. The scheme christened ‘Students @ Clean City’ seeks to reward school students, who persuade their parents to segregate their household waste into degradable and non degradable before handing it over to civic sanitary workers or do it themselves, with bicycles and other gifts. To win the prizes, the students should execute the task every day right through the month of July and get the signatures of their parents and civic officials on a sanitation card to be distributed by the Corporation to about 350 schools in the city. The filled-in cards for the entire month, with entries for all 31 days, should be handed over to the Heads of the schools, who in turn are required to conduct a draw of lots in the presence of students on August 6. The first prize winner from each school would get a bicycle worth ?5,000. The second prize winner would be given a prize worth ?1,000 and the third prize winner would get an Oxford dictionary. Ten schools which see the maximum participation from students would also stand to win prizes from the civic body. The prizes would be distributed on Independence Day. The initiative is part of a series of promotional measures already being implemented by the Tiruchi Corporation over the past couple of years to improve sanitation and source segregation of waste. Currently, the civic body with the help of a sponsor is handing out water kettles to city residents who upload videos of segregated waste being handed over to sanitary workers. Students participating in the latest initiative can also upload video clippings of handing over the segregated garbage to civic workers on the Facebook group Students@cleantrichy District Collector K. Rajamani launched the initiative by unveiling a bicycle that is to be given as prize in the presence of City Police Commissioner A. Amalraj, Corporation Special Officer-cum-Commissioner N. Ravichandran and Chief Educational Officer M. Ramakrishnan.

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