Cologne is green, why not Mumbai.
Lhendup G Bhutia's article, This Cologne is green, (DNA,Nov.28) is informative and an eye-opener. The Cologne city has taken three initiatives to reduce the city's pollution – cleaning the water of Emscher river, recycling and disposal of products and solar panel for buses. BMC has been talking of widening and cleaning the water of Mithi river since the great deluge of 2005. BMC can form a partnership with companies in Mmbai who have the expertise to purify the water of Mithi as a non-profit company for that purpose as was done in Cologne. Similarly, producers should be entrusted with task of recycling and disposal whatever they produce as in Cologne. Now it is being done by the informal sector of street boys/women. They could be trained by the association of producers to collect and dispose these materials, and make them proper employees of the association.
Lhendup G Bhutia's article, This Cologne is green, (DNA,Nov.28) is informative and an eye-opener. The Cologne city has taken three initiatives to reduce the city's pollution – cleaning the water of Emscher river, recycling and disposal of products and solar panel for buses. BMC has been talking of widening and cleaning the water of Mithi river since the great deluge of 2005. BMC can form a partnership with companies in Mmbai who have the expertise to purify the water of Mithi as a non-profit company for that purpose as was done in Cologne. Similarly, producers should be entrusted with task of recycling and disposal whatever they produce as in Cologne. Now it is being done by the informal sector of street boys/women. They could be trained by the association of producers to collect and dispose these materials, and make them proper employees of the association.
The third initiative of Cologne city should be the easiest for the city to adopt, and that is green buses. All city buses could be provided with solar panels to power the buses. The concerned citizens and, NGOs should these issues with the corporators and the Municipal administration. The citizens of the city should be made aware of these initiatives of Cologne city and it should find a place in the manifesto of parties in the forthcoming municipal election.
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November 28,2010.
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