The community won the Clean Village Campaign Award for 2014-2015Two-year-long efforts of Thiruparkadal villagers and panchayat members to ensure a clean village paid off, with the State Government recognising their work with the “Clean Village Campaign Award” for 2014-2015. Dhananchezhiyan, Thiruparkadal panchayat president. Simultaneously, the village panchayat members started to work out a solid waste management scheme. M. Manohar Singh, additional director, Rural Development Department said Thiruparkadal was one of the three villages identified for the award. “We had taken measures to see that all the houses in the panchayat have toilets.

Source: The Hindu July 23, 2016 00:22 UTC