IEP Chandigarh
Chandigarh has opened the doors of the first ‘ Rupee Store’ to promote the concept of 3R i.e. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and use the items collected to help the needy people in the city. The city’s first ‘Rupee Store’ aims to encourage the practice of following 3R and also, help people in need, where people can buy any item whether it is briefcase, ladies suits, gents trousers and shirts just @ Rs. 1/- per item.
On Friday, city Mayor Sh. Anup Gupta inaugurated the 1st store at community centre, Vikas Nagar, Mauli Jagran in the presence of Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Sh. Manoj Sonkar, area councilor and other prominent persons of the area. Similarly, 2nd store was opened by the Mayor at community centre, small flats, Maloya in the presence of area councilor Mrs. Nirmala Devi and others.
While speaking on the occasion, the Mayor said that with the mantra of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle at the RRR centres, reusable items have been made available to the needy people in the villages and colony areas of the city. He said that after setting up of temporary RRR centres at all 35 wards of city the MCC has started permanent RRR centre at New Bridge Market, near Jagat cinema, Sector 17, where citizens can bring their reusable items to donate.
He said that Municipal Corporation had set up 35 RRR centres in the 35 wards of the city on 20th May where residents have donated their good quality old clothes, toys, shoes, furniture items, crockery items and books among other items at the RRR centres, which have been repaired, refurbished and made usable to the needy. He said that a large number of old books and textbooks have been deposited in the RRR centres, which will be very usefull to the needy students and others in slums and other areas.
Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, MCC said that from recycling electronic items, clothes, old books, shoes to upscaling used items the RRR centres paved way for sustainability in the urban areas. Both donating to RRR centres and buying used clothes and other articles help to keep these goods from going to landfills. Keeping in line with these centres, urban sanitation ecosystem moves towards Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Centres or the RRR Centres.
She said that 35 RRR Centres were set up across the city and one permanent centre has been set up at sector 17, as thousands of citizens participated in these mega collection drives to deposit old, unused goods. The newly opened ‘Rupee Store’ at Mauli Jagran and Maloya are not just attracting enthusiastic crowd eager to purchase unused goods, old books, shoes, clothes toys only at Rs. 1 per item, but are also capturing the essence of jan andolan, said the Commissioner.
She further said that the passion for Swachhata coupled with the conscious effort of conserving the resources is clearly visible on ground by opening permanent RRR centre and ‘Rupee Store’ sale centres in the city beautiful under ‘Meri LiFE, Mera Swachh Shehar’ campaign.
