Mayor flags off door to door segregation of garbage at Dariya & Mauli Jagra

Chandigarh, August 21:- Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Mayor and Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh today flagged off 11 vehicles to carry out the door to door collection of waste in segregated manner at village Dariya and Mauli Jagran. They were accompanied by Sh. S.K. Jain, Additional Commissioner and other senior officers of MCC and other prominent persons of the area during the launch.

           The Commissioner informed that these 11 vehicles will collect door to door waste in segregated manner i.e. wet and dry separately in different cabins from near about 7500 houses in Dariya and 3500 in Mauli Jagran.

He said that the Municipal Corporation has purchased 99 vehicles of 3.2 Cubic meter capacity to carry out the door to door collection of domestic waste in segregated manner. The dry and wet waste will be given by residents separately and will be collected in different compartment of the vehicles.

The commissioner informed that the Corporation is looking after mechanism to make compost from the wet waste in the villages itself immediate after collecting the garbage from the households. He said that 2 ton capacity or as per required capacity, composting machines will be planted and the compost made from the garbage will be used in the parks of the area.

          He said that 55 vehicles will be used for the 13 villages recently transferred to the Municipal Corporation and the remaining 44 vehicles will be used for the unattended areas of the city which are not being catered by private waste collectors. Remaining villages will be taken up for collection of segregated waste through these vehicles within this weekend.

           He said that earlier 33 vehicles have been deputed to collect Door to Door segregated waste from households at village Sarangpur and Khudda Jassu, Behlana, Raipur Khurd, Makhan Majra and Raipur Kalan, Kishangarh, Khudda Lahora and Maloya. Similarly, adequate number of Vehicles will be deputed in remaining villages by this weekend.

           During the programme, officers of MCC and gathered local area residents pledged for Segregation of wet and dry wast.