Mayor flagged off 3rd phase of door to door waste collection through MCC vehicles
Chandigarh, March 31: – Sh. Ravi Kant Sharma, Mayor, Chandigarh today flagged off the 3rd phase of door to door waste collection through MCC vehicles in Community Centre, Sector 50, Chandigarh in the presence of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Sh. Satish Kumar Jain, Additional Commissioner, and Smt. Heera Negi, area councillor, Dr. Amrit Warring, Medical Officer of Health and other officials of MCC.
The Mayor said that in order to implementation successful door to door collection of waste separately i.e. wet and dry waste, the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has deployed their 85 vehicles in 2nd phase in sectors 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 61 and 63 in the city, which have reduced the problem of mixed garbage collected at garbage plant.
In addition to that Sh. Ravi Kant Sharma, Mayor, Chandigarh today flagged off door to door waste collection through 36 MCC vehicles in Mauli Jagran, Chandigarh in the presence of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Sh. Sorabh Arora, Joint Commissioner, Sh. Anil Dubey, area councillor, and Sh. Vinod Aggarwal, Dr. Amrit Warring, Medical Officer of Health and other officials of MCC.
The 36 vehicles will run in Mauli Jagran, Vikas Nagar and Manimajra door to door for the collection of waste separately i.e. wet and dry waste.
While sharing information about the door to door waste collection system through MCC vehicles, Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, MCC said that these vehicles will carry the waste from households to the transfer stations, from where the waste is transported to the garbage plant in loaders. All vehicles used in the collection and transportation system are monitored by a GPS enabled tracking system. The GPS system is constantly monitored by the monitoring cell. Any route deviations by particular drivers are penalized and multiple deviations is also grounds for termination, added the Commissioner.
He said that Chandigarh has been divided into 4 zones and 26 wards. Each ward has on an average 9600 households and commercial establishments of the areas. In Chandigarh, waste is generated from various sources including households, commercial areas and other institutions like RWAs, hospitals, hotels among others. The households or residential complexes are covered by the door to door collection system while the semi bulk and bulk generators are covered by the bulk collection system. With this facility, Chandigarh ensures the 100% coverage of wards through its door to door segregated collection system with deploying all the 390 additional vehicles, added the Commissioner.
