Siliguri, Nov. 6: The Siliguri Municipal Corporation will release CDs on the systematic disposal of waste in an awareness campaign for residents to be launched next month.

“We will make a documentary and distribute CDs to all 47 councillors, who in turn, will show them in their wards, using LCD projectors and other audio-visual mechanisms to the residents,” Sujoy Ghatak, the newly elected member of the mayor-in-council (conservancy and environment), said today. “The CDs will contain information and guidelines on waste disposal and proper collection of garbage. We plan to launch this campaign by the first week of next month.”

After visiting different localities of the civic area Ghatak realised that raising awareness among residents was the only way to reduce the level of pollution. “Keeping that in mind, we mooted the idea of this awareness drive through CDs, which perhaps will be introduced for the first time at the SMC,” he said.

The content of the documentary will be “dos” and “don’ts” for the residents on conservancy, guidelines for collecting garbage, the necessity of solid waste management and how a resident can help civic employees dispose the waste, Ghatak said. “These will be projected in a simple way for easy understanding of all people, right from a child to a senior citizen.”

According to the civic member, Siliguri has fast emerged as a major commercial hub in the state and in north-eastern part of India. “Tourists and business travellers from different parts of the country and abroad regularly visit the town. It is important that the environment here remains clean and pollution-free to provide an ideal ambience to visitors,” Ghatak said.