{"id":22668,"date":"2015-03-02T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=22668"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T11:31:50","slug":"6-more-wards-in-trivandrum-declared-as-garbage-free-wards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/6-more-wards-in-trivandrum-declared-as-garbage-free-wards\/","title":{"rendered":"6 More wards in Trivandrum declared as \u2018Garbage-free\u2019 wards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the My City, Beautiful City waste management programme of the Trivandrum Corporation, six more wards in the city has been declared garbage-free. Governor P. Sathasivam formally declared the wards as &#8216;clean wards&#8217; last Friday. With this the total number of clean wards in the city has been increased to<strong> 10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The wards which were declared clean are Jagathy, Kuravankonam, Pattom, Ulloor, Edavakkode and Sreekanteswaram. The declaration was made on the basis of a report by an expert committee, which inspected the wards to check whether they met the guidelines specified.<\/p>\n<p>A major guideline for a clean ward is that at least <strong>60%<\/strong> of households should have a pipe compost or mini-biogas plant installed. Trivandrum Corporation is promoting treatment of waste at source.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2014, the Corporation had declared Palayam, Nedumkad, Kowdiar, and Muttada wards clean. To ensure that Palayam market remain as a clean ward, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/20-night-vision-cameras-to-be-installed-at-palayam-ward\/\" target=\"_blank\">20 surveillance cameras <\/a>will be installed in the area. Clear images of people who dispose waste under the cover of night can be captured using the night vision cameras. The narrow road from RBI office to Vazhuthacaud is often dumped with all sorts of garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the My City, Beautiful City waste management programme of the Trivandrum Corporation, six more wards in the city has been declared garbage-free. Governor P. Sathasivam formally declared the wards as &#8216;clean wards&#8217; last Friday. With this the total number of clean wards in the city has been increased to 10. The wards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452,433],"class_list":["post-22668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum","tag-trivandrum-coporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}