Thanks to 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act
Lot had been heard and read about energy efficiency and waste management. In the metropolitan city where I live, things are meticulously planned, literature vastly written and large funds allocated for avenues of energy efficiency. The irony is that the cities are where lots of words are spoken and little action is done. And it is here too, where there is a huge energy demand on one side and the dilemma of waste disposal on the other. Recently, I visited a relative’s place in Idukki district of Kerala. Though the area was rural, the house possessed almost all modern amenities. In all, what was noteworthy was the way they managed the available resources around the household. Rain water harvesting, bio gas plant and kitchen garden enabled the right use of water, waste and land respectively. Mrs. Sulochana Chandran, the lady of the house as well as a Block Panchayat member, says that The Kitchen Waste bio gas plant being the recent installation, costs aroun...