Mayor flagged off 2nd phase of door to door waste collection through MCC vehicles
Chandigarh, March 1:- Sh. Ravi Kant Sharma, Mayor, Chandigarh today flagged off the 2nd phase of door to door waste collection through MCC vehicles near Mahila Bhawan, Sector 38, Chandigarh in the presence of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Sh. Arun Sood, former Mayor and area councilor, Sh. Sorabh Arora, Joint Commissioner, Dr. Amrit Warring, Medical Officer of Health and other prominent persons of area.
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 own vehicles in 1st phase from sector 1 to 30 in the city, which have reduced the problem of mixed garbage collected at garbage plant.
He said that from today onwards the MCC has deployed 70 more vehicles in southern sectors including sectors 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 38 West, 46, 47 and 48 for door to door collection of waste through the use of partitioned vehicles including three separate collection bins for wet, dry and domestic hazardous waste in each vehicle.
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.
In addition to that 223 more vehicles will be deployed in phased manner on delivery bases throughout the city to collect segregated waste from households.
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.
