District panchayat president M.T. Thomas on Monday said that a major focus of his development agenda is setting up of waste treatment plants especially in the towns where waste disposal has become a major problem.

Talking to The Hindu , Mr. Thomas said that waste disposal has created a major problem in the environmentally-sensitive district. Projects will be drawn in cooperation with block and grama panchayats to treat and periodically collect both bio-degradable and non-bio degradable wastes.