Ambala Municipal Corporation has become the first civic body in Haryana where citizens have been provided with the facility of door-to-door garbage collection.
Under Swachchh Bharat Mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Municipal Corporation Ambala has started a scheme for collecting garbage from every house in all its 20 wards.
Under a scheme started in coordination with a private agency, 10 rehris would be pressed into service for collection of garbage in each ward. The number of rehris would be increased as per the requirement, said Haryana Minister of State for Renewable Energy Nayab Singh Saini during inauguration of the scheme from Ambala city.
As per the scheme, in case, the company entrusted with the task does not collect garbage on daily basis, fine of Rs1000 per household for first offence and Rs2000 per household for second offence would be imposed. Before release of payment to contractor, firm would have to present satisfactory report from Sanitation Inspector and Municipal Counselors of respective wards.
Apart from this, rehris for garbage collection, vehicles, staff, safety equipments and other required facilities have been arranged by company at their own level. The wages to safai karamcharis would be paid on DC rates. The company would also establish four complaint centres in Municipal area for receiving grievances and their redressal where company would station their own personnel.
Also, it would be responsibility of contractor to unload garbage collected from households to Solid Waste Management Plant. In addition, contractor would also have to collect garbage from drains.
Saini said that this would not only make Ambala clean and healthy but would also give impetus to Swachchh Bharat Mission launched by Prime Minister
Speaking on this occasion, MlA Aseem Goel said that
Rs97 crore plan has been prepared under Atal Bharat Mission for making Ambala flood-free, Rs10.53 crore funds would be provided for construction of Ambala drain and a flood control scheme costing Rs2.20 crore for Naseerpur is also proposed.
