Kolkata: New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) will appoint eco ambassadors from among the residents of New Town to create awareness among the people to conserve water and other environmental issues.
This is for the first time when a state government agency will be training up residents to create awareness on environment protection.
It may be mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said over and again that people of the area should be taken into confidence before implementation of any project.
A lottery was conducted at Rabindra Tirtha on Sunday and 10 eco ambassadors were selected .They will be given training by NKDA soon so that they can go to the people and talk on the important issues.
The eco ambassadors will be felicitated and given a token cash prize of Rs 1,000 each and will be given the honour of being an eco ambassador to tell people how to avoid eco anxiety by making New Town a green and clean City. The programe is likely to be held on September 15 evening at Eco Park. Over the past few months NKDA has organised several citizens' meets across New Town on waste segregation, recycling, home composting, no plastics, rain water harvesting and control of vector borne diseases.
As many as 757 residents had given their commitment in writing to NKDA to segregate wastes into dry and wet streams. Forms were earlier distributed during residents' meets during the IEC (Information and Education Campaigns) of NKDA at various localities.
In New Town, stress has been given on the use of solar power to make it into a solar city and a second solar canal-top project (1,000 KWp) is being conceived in collaboration with IIEST, the first one being a 500 KWp near Eco Park.