Governor launches door to door waste collection through MCC vehicles
Chandigarh, December 22:- Sh. V.P. Singh Badnore, Governor, Punjab and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh today launched the door to door waste collections through MCC vehicles from Punjab Raj Bhawan, Sector 6, Chandigarh in the presence of Sh. Manoj Parida, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, UT, Chandigarh and Smt. Raj Bala Malik, Mayor, Chandigarh.
During the launch, the Governor 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 throughout the city, which will reduce the problem of mixed garbage collected at garbage plant. He said that the door to door collection will now be done through the use of partitioned vehicles including three separate collection bins for wet, dry and domestic hazardous waste in each vehicle. He said that now Chandigarh can achieve top position in the Swachh Survekshan-2021 with ensuring 100% waste segregation in the city.
The Governor congratulated the Mayor for implementing the system in city with a detailed route plan to cover all the wards and villages alongwith colonies of city. He asked the concerned officers to prepare a detailed vehicle and staff deployment plan based on the route plan in order to meet the waste collection demand of each ward.
He appealed all the citizens of Chandigarh to give segregated waste in these MCC vehicles for easy and early processing of the garbage at the plant. He asked all the councilors to create awareness among the city residents at their ward levels so that the system be implemented successfully.
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 the segregated waste i.e. wet, dry and hazardous waste from the domestic generators will be collected through newly deployed 97 vehicles on daily basis, which will run on the streets of sectors 1 to 30, Chandigarh from today. He said that earlier, the MCC had deployed 99 door to door waste collection vehicles, which are also running in the city to collect segregated waste from villages and some commercial areas of city. In addition to that 293 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.
Among others, Sh. Sanjay Beniwal, IPS, DGP, Sh. Arun Kumar Gupta, Principal Secretary Home, Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, MCC, Sh. Mandeep Singh Brar, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Sh. Ravi Kant Sharma, Senior Deputy Mayor, Sh. Jagtar Singh, Deputy Mayor, Sh. Rajesh Kalia, Chairman, Sanitation Committee, MCC, Sh. Mahesh Inder Singh Siddhu, area councilor, Sh. Sorabh Arora, Joint Commissioner, Sh. N.P. Sharma, Chief General Manager, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd., Dr. Amrit Warring, Medical Officer of Health and other concerned officers of Administration and MCC were present during the launch programme.
