Mayor flags off door to door segregation of garbage at Maloya

Chandigarh, August 10:- Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Mayor and Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh  today flagged off 4 vehicles to carry out the door to door collection of waste in segregated manner at rehabilitated colony at Maloya. They were accompanied by senior officers of MCC and other prominent persons of the area during the launch.

           The Commissioner informed that these 4 vehicles will collect door to door waste in segregated manner i.e. wet and dry separately in different cabins from near about 5000 houses from the rehabilitated colony Maloya. In addition 3 wheel carts have also been deployed into the work of segregation in the rehabilitated colony from today onward.

          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 colony itself immediate after collecting t he garbage from the households. He said that 2 ton capacity or as per required capacity, composting machine will be planted and the compost made from the garbage will be used in the parks of the rehabilitated colony of Maloya.

          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 next few days.

           He said that earlier 29 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 and Khudda Lahora. Similarly, Adequate number of Vehicles will be deputed in remaining villages shortly.

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

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