Accepts CM challenge, capital to be turned into ‘Clean City’
V Sivankutty MLA, CPM PB member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan party Leaders Anavoor Nagappan, and Koliyakkod Krishnan Nair during a workshop on waste management organised by CPM district committee on Monday. (Photo: DC )
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Accepting the “flex board challenge” of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the CPM has decided not to use flex boards during the party conferences from branch to state level. This was stated by CPM politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan while inaugurating the workshop on waste management organised by the district committee of the party here on Monday. The party will not put up huge flex boards featuring photo of leaders, party slogans and conference schedule.
He said the party committees had been directed to strictly enforce the ban on flex boards during conferences. The CPM branch conferences are under way and these would be followed by local, area, district and state conferences in the run up to the 21st party congress to be held in Visakhapatnam in 2015.
The meet decided to install waste disposal mechanism in the houses of party workers and sympathisers. Besides, awareness committees will be constituted in each locality for effective waste disposal activities.
With the CPM-led city corporation having failed miserably to address the waste problem, the party is desperate to make amends ahead of the local bodies’ poll next year. It has drawn a special plan for city which will be unveiled by state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in November .
Party squads will remove garbage dumps across the city and the campaign will be intensified over the next six months with the aim of making Thiruvananthapuram a “clean city.” Besides, the party volunteers will also conduct door-to-door campaigns during this period to request people not to throw garbage in public places.
CPM central committee member Dr Thomas Isaac called upon party workers and sympathisers to adopt suitable waste disposal systems in their houses. He shared the experience of Alappuzha where waste disposal mechanism, including aerobic compost technology, had been used successfully.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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