All these were done last year by the city corporation as part of the Reduce, Recycle, Reuse (RRR) initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
Under the initiative, residents were encouraged to give various recyclable materials, including old clothes, to micro compost centres (MCC). Clothes collected through the initiative were meant to be used for making cloth bags and given to traders or vendors free of cost.
TNIE recently conducted an inquiry and ground check to know more about the cloth collected through the initiative and found irregularities.
TNIE first filed an RTI with the corporation enquiring details of the quantity of clothes collected through the initiative and what was done with them.
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