518 cubic meters of landfill space spared ; 2 million litres of water saved ; 1.65 lakh litres of petroleum conserved ; and 1,100 trees prevented from being axed This is no empty boast on the part of the Coonoor Municipal Corporation and Clean Coonoor. As on this World Environment Day, the theme of which […]
Author Archives: Vasanthan Panchavarnam
Waltz of the Flowers at the Waste Management Park
31 March marks the end of the floral season in these hills, a two month period when parks and gardens of this hill station present a virtual kaleidoscope of the vivid pinks, reds, blues, and yellows of flowerbeds, contrasting with the verdant green of lawns and shrubberies. The essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson is known to […]
Commendation from the Highest Level
Teamwork over personal ambition, is the reason for the accolade bestowed upon the Municipal Corporation and Clean Coonoor, for their joint efforts in the creation of the Waste Management Park at Ottupattarai on 02 Feb 2020. The words of appreciation came from none other than the Chairperson, State Monitoring Committee of the National Green Tribunal […]
71st Republic Day Celebrations – Coonoor Municipal Corporation
The republic day celebrations across the country, happens to fall just a week ahead of the day, when the Mahatma visited a small hamlet within the municipal limits of Coonoor in 1934. The settlement near Ottupattarai was chiefly inhabited by those of the depressed classes, who were then known as conservancy workers or more vulgarly […]