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Thrissur has acceptable a benchmark successful sustainable discarded management. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board has conferred this year’s archetypal prize connected the 360 KLD Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) installed astatine the Thrissur Corporation General Hospital. The announcement was made connected September 24, 2025 (Wednesday).
When the State authorities handed implicit the General Hospital to the Thrissur Corporation successful 2016, it had nary modern facilities for wastewater treatment— astir of the sewage was being discharged straight into canals. Since then, the infirmary has seen historical transformations, from the constitution of a cath laboratory for cardiac patients to a big of projects that caught the State’s attention, Mayor M.K. Varghese said.
“Understanding the urgent request for wastewater recycling, the Corporation Council had approved a program successful 2015 to acceptable up a modern STP. The works present treats sewage from toilets, bathrooms, and the canteen, recycling it for flushing and gardening purposes. The installation tin process up to 360 kilolitres of wastewater per day, utilizing precocious ultra-filtration technology.”
Built nether the AMRUT strategy astatine a outgo of ₹4.5 crore, the strategy includes lipid traps, anoxic tanks for nitrogen reduction, aeration with MBBR (Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor) media for microbial treatment, and last disinfection with chlorine and ultra-filtration membranes. The effect is clear, odour-free, reusable h2o — delivered without causing contamination oregon foul odor successful the surrounding area.
This milestone comes astatine a clip erstwhile Thrissur is redefining its municipality scenery — transforming Lalooor, erstwhile seen arsenic the city’s garbage dump, into an planetary sports analyzable named aft shot fable I.M. Vijayan.
The grant volition beryllium formally presented by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan astatine the AURA 2K25 - 50 Years of Environmental Stewardship planetary biology conclave, to beryllium held astatine ADLUX International Convention Centre, Karukutty connected September 27, arsenic portion of the Pollution Control Board’s Golden Jubilee celebrations.
The designation was fixed successful the class of hospitals with 100–250 beds, honouring a socially committed task that delivers nationalist benefit. The Thrissur Corporation General Hospital’s inaugural is not conscionable an engineering accomplishment but besides a learning exemplary for sustainable municipality maturation arsenic the metropolis steps into its metropolitan future, the Mayor added.
