ludhiana with an aim of reducing garbage generation civic officials will educate people about ways of getting rid of kitchen and horticulture waste at home they will also take the help of mobile application cramat on which the videos of those residents will be uploaded who are already doing it at home and messages will also be conveyed to make compost pits at home besides mc will reward residents by organizing a lucky draw the aim is to cover 20000 households in the next two months before the beginning of swachhta survekshan 2019officials will conduct meetings with resident welfare associations and active residents who will be told how to prepare manure without incurring much expenditure officials claimed kitchen and horticulture waste can be converted into manure very easily for this residents will have to get one pitcher and make small holes in it for the passing of air in this pitcher kitchen waste should be kept for 45 days which will convert into manure that can be used in the garden for plantssimilarly in another method people who have lawns in their homes should dig a small pit and put kitchen waste along with dry leaves inside that pit and then cover it with sand after 60 days the manure will be prepared now residents will be made aware of these simple steps to get rid of wet wastethe app cramat which is basically meant for registering complaints over civic issues will be used for bringing the attention of the public towards composting at home one of the officials informed they will send messages through this app to the public that they should adopt composting at home and residents who perform best will be awarded by mc he also claimed it was a part of their attempt to make people aware about segregation of garbage at the first step as when wet waste is used for composting only then will dry waste be left for lifting he said it would help reduce the garbage mess in the citymc commissioner kp brar said i have asked officials concerned to identify residents already working on this subject and highlight those through videos on the social media or even cramat app also we will honour residents who come forward to take this initiative she informed they were doing this under the swachhta survekshan guidelinesin the recently notified solid waste management policy 2018 too the segregation of waste at source and doorto door garbage collection has been made mandatory this policy is also aimed at ensuring home composting and kitchen gardening for improving the pollution level of the city