Mayor flags off door to door segregation of garbage from Dhanas village

Chandigarh, September 30:- Sh. Rajesh Kumar, Mayor and Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh today flagged off 12 vehicles to carry out the door to door collection of waste in segregated manner at village Dhanas, Khudda Ali Sher and village Kaimbwala. Prominent persons of the area were also present during the launch.

The Mayor informed that the 12 vehicles will collect door to door waste in segregated manner i.e. wet and dry separately in different cabins from village Dhanas, Khudda Ali Sher and Kaimbwala from near about 1900, 2300 and 2500 households respectively.

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 compartments of the vehicles.

The Mayor said that 55 vehicles have been deployed to use 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.

He said that the pilot project to start segregation in all the recently transferred villages has been completed and now the MCC will start door to door segregation in market areas of sectors from 9, 10, 11, 23 & 24 in the first phase within one week.

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