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The Thrissur Municipal Corporation has been selected for the prestigious ‘Paristhithi Mithram Award 2026’ successful the section self-government class successful designation of its exemplary efforts successful biology extortion and sustainable development.
The award, which carries a currency prize of ₹1 lakh on with a citation and plaque, volition beryllium presented astatine the State-level World Environment Day celebrations successful Thiruvananthapuram. The lawsuit is jointly organised by the Directorate of Environment and Climate Change, the Kerala State Biodiversity Board and the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment.
The Corporation has made important strides crossed each 56 divisions successful discarded management, h2o conservation and greening initiatives.
The designation comes connected the backmost of broad projects implemented by the civic body, including technological discarded processing, h2o conservation, recycling measures and strict enforcement against single-use plastics.
Among its cardinal achievements is an innovative watershed absorption programme, nether which respective waterbodies wrong the Corporation limits person been rejuvenated. As portion of the ‘Water Efficient Thrissur’ initiative, astute metering systems person been introduced, on with the usage of precocious nano-technologies specified arsenic GeoBlue Water Forest and GeoBlue AlgoX to heighten oxygen levels and purify waterbodies without chemicals.
The Corporation has besides stepped up enforcement, conducting round-the-clock squad inspections and initiating strict ineligible enactment against those polluting h2o sources oregon violating integrative bans.
Mayor Niji Justin said the grant reflects the corporate efforts of residents, councillors and officials. “Public practice successful implementing h2o conservation and discarded absorption projects has been crucial. This designation strengthens our work to instrumentality up larger initiatives and further beforehand the Thrissur exemplary of biology protection,” she said.
