Booklet on waste mgmt for Lahaul students released

Topic included as co-cognitive activity in schools

Our Correspondent

Kullu, April 1

Lahaul and Spiti Deputy Commissioner Pankaj Rai today released an activity-guide booklet to make schoolchildren aware of solid waste management as a co-cognitive subject. He said that Lahaul is the first district to incorporate the topic as a co-cognitive activity for students.

Rai said that through this activity-guide, students would be trained in theoretical and practical aspects of solid waste management. He added that it had been prepared in two sections and made available as a concise-simple medium at the primary level and as a detailed, audio-visual medium at the secondary level. Through this, the school students would be imparted training about solid waste management, side-effects of solid waste and the importance of dustbins.

He said that to make schoolchildren aware of the need for solid waste management, this topic had been added as a co-cognitive activity in some schools on a pilot basis. There would be a problem of solid waste in Lahaul and Spiti district in future due to the increasing number of tourists and business activities. Therefore, it was necessary to make all people aware of the problem.

Rai said that people already use wet waste as fertiliser in their fields. A plan had been chalked out for the disposal of solid waste, which would be implemented soon to prevent pollution in the beautiful environment of Lahaul. He added, “We have signed an MoU with the IIT, Delhi, and soon a system of collection, management and disposal of solid waste will be implemented throughout Lahaul”.

He said that 50 toilets were being built at tourist places such as Sissu, Udaipur, Triloknath, Tandi Sangam, Deepaktaal and Chandertaal at a cost of Rs 43 lakh. He added that the administration had arranged 20 dumpers and a vehicle for solid waste management, courtesy the Municipal Corporation of Shimla.