Private donors gift Corporation with a pledge to improve Madurai’s upkeep

The recent reports about the low ranking of Madurai Corporation at the bottom for poor upkeep appear to have kick-started a few of the corporate group and banks to come forward in donating resources.

Corporation officials said that a private bank had donated two vehicles recently in the presence of Minister P. Moorthy and Commissioner Chitra Vijayan and health department officials.

Likewise, the civic body received a mini-excavator and a mini-vehicle to lift the garbage from Raj Exim, a private export house from Madurai.

Exporter K. Thirupathi Rajan of Raj Exim said on Saturday that the heritage city which is known as ‘thoonga nagaram’ (city which never sleeps) should be on the top in cleanliness as well.

“It was disturbing to see the city being ranked low by the Union Urban Ministry. Instead of finding fault or criticising each other, the citizens should come together in helping the civic body in achieving the goal of clean city initiative,” he added.

With the idea of restoring the lost sheen, he said an initiative ‘Pudhu Madurai”, (new Madurai) should be campaigned among the residents.

The corporate houses should examine the modalities and help reach out the Corporation and its workers with more resources, Mr. Rajan said and added that they had lifted almost 40 tonnes of garbage in the last 30 days from wards 91 and 100 (Avaniapuram and Villapuram) in MGM Nagar and Thanthai Periyar Nagar.

The garbage lifted by them are being taken to the compost yard at Vellakal.

He also said that using technology, the waste segregation should be made more easy for the conservancy workers. In the age of WhatsApp and Instagram, Madurai city should bounce back and be on the top of the score board.

“We are currently helping out the conservancy workers in lifting the garbage between South Gate and Airport Road,” he said.

The Corporation Commissioner said that they had been insisting the residents across the 100 wards on supporting the health department officials by following the solid waste management as it paved way for easy disposal of bio-degradable and non bio-degradable waste.

In simple words, wet and dry waste should be segregated at doorsteps by the residents. This would not only help conservancy workers in lifting them swiftly, but also ensure the eco-system was not polluted.