Kolkata, Aug 29 (KNN) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has appreciated local factories for manufacturing cane-like substance from hyacinths accumulated in the ponds in the city and use it for making baskets. 

They have decided to meet the MSME department and urge to take measures so that the water hyacinths in the ponds in the city can be used for manufacturing purposes. 

Mayor Firhad Hakim said that some factories in North 24-Parganas have been picking water hyacinths from ponds and are utilising the same for making a cane-like substance which is being used for making baskets. 

KMC is encouraging the local people to take up pisciculture in these waterbodies through cooeperative system against a payment to the corporation.

This will give a boost to employment and even maintain cleanliness.   (KNN Bureau)