Best out of waste: A Karnataka village park created from scrap items

Tumminakatti Gram Panchayat in Karnataka has created an innovative park out of scrap items. Appreciating their efforts, state government later released Rs 20 lakh grant for using the solid waste management unit in a creative manner.

Tumminakatti (Karnataka): Struggling with many modern-day problems of massive population, chaotic traffic, life-threatening pollution and mounting garbage, waste park at Tumminakatti Gram Panchayat is a unique creation in itself. Created from waste materials and scrap items, an innovative park has been made by the staff of the Tumminakatti Gram Panchayat.

Grabbing everyone's attention, team members of the Gram Panchayat have worked for almost a year to built this ingenious park. Water bottles and beer cans thrown as garbage have been collected by the workers for the creation of this park which has received wide appreciation.

With a population of 15,000, Tumminakatti village is situated along the border of Ranebennuru taluk town in Haveri district. The village has a solid waste management unit which has been utilised for the creation of this beautiful park.

Ducks, beautiful walk-paths, flower ponds have been made with the help of 2000 beer bottles and scrap items.

At present, the solid waste management unit has an appealing park and no solid wastes are dumped into it. Karnataka state government has released the grant of Rs 20 lakhs for Tumminakatti Gram Panchayat for using solid waste management unit in an effective and efficient manner.

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Appreciating the efforts of the Gram Panchayat, officer Shyam Sunder Kambale has advised people from other districts to develop parks out of solid waste items.