more-inPromising to give incentives and awards to resident welfare associations for maintaining cleanliness in colonies, Municipal Commissioner M. Hari Narayanan has called upon them to supplement the smart city development by taking up rainwater harvesting, roof-top solar energy and plantation drives. Though GVMC made rainwater harvesting structure mandatory instead of builder just complying with it, if RWAs take up RWH structures with the spirit of deriving the benefit in the colonies, it would be successful, Mr. Hari Narayanan said. He had started meeting RWAs at zone-level and so far four zones were covered, Mr. Hari Narayanan said. Solar powerQuoting the example of power bill coming down at his residence after installing solar power, he said RWAs should go in for solar power of at least one kilowatt. “The only way of changing it again is to install solar power so that an aerial view looks like a solar city,” Mr Haribabu said.

Source: The Hindu August 07, 2017 03:45 UTC