Madurai Corporation organised ‘ man manakkum thuimai Madurai ,’ a three-day green exhibition, along with Madurai chapter of Soroptimist International and Mahatma Group of Schools, at Tamukkam grounds here on Friday.
It had set up stalls to create awareness of the need to construct rainwater harvesting structures, the benefits of constructing micro-composting centres and the ways to segregate organic and inorganic waste at source.
Collector T.S. Rajasekar and Corporation Commissioner S. Visakan inaugurated the expo which has 125 stalls selling organic manure, vermi-compost, cloth bags, jute bags, organic vegetables, saplings and terracotta dolls. Mr. Visakan urged the residents to help the civic body to attain the goal of Madurai becoming a binless city in the next six months.
The students of Mahatma Global Gateway have set up a stall where scrap cardboard recycled to make flower vases, wall hangings and pen holders have been displayed. There are stalls which sell organic sanitary napkins, home compost bins, organic mosquito coils and paper pencils attached with seeds.
“Over 250 students from our school take part in the expo and they will learn our traditional art forms and lifestyle,” says T. Swarnam, a teacher of E.V.R. Nagammai Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School.
“We want to create awareness of harmful effects of using fertilizers and the need to switch over to an organic lifestyle,” says D. Janet Casantha Kumari, president, Soroptimist International (Madurai).
