The village of Kameshwaram in the coastal district of Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu will witness a unique "beauty contest" on July 14 -- that of ecological toilets.
There will be no cat walks by good looking youngsters, but the stars of the day would be 'EcoSan toilets', most suited for tsunami-hit sandy coastal areas.
The "First Toilet Beauty Contest", organised by Friends in Need (FIN France) and SCOPE (Society for Community Organization and People's Education) Tiruchirappalli, leaders in Ecological Sanitation in India, is to reward the pioneering users of the EcoSan toilets.
Eligibility for participating in the contest is limited to the first batch of 100 "EcoSan toilet families" in the village who are using them properly and maintaining well the kitchen garden watered by the urine from the toilet.
The contest is part of the three-day Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Conference being organised by INRA (Institute National de la Recherche) France, UN-AMI (Friends in need) France, the Bharathidasan University and SCOPE in Tiruchirappalli from July 12.
Besides cash awards ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000 under three categories, all participants would be given a prize on July 14, M Subburaman, Director, SCOPE, said.
The theme of the conference, the first of its kind in the country, is "Role of technology and innovation in attainment of the MDG-food security, socio-economic and environmental security and health in marginalized zones in India."
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