Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore on Tuesday launched the door to door waste collection through civic body vehicles in the union territory of Chandigarh.
The segregated waste i.e. wet, dry and hazardous waste from the domestic generators will be collected through newly deployed 97 vehicles on a daily basis, which will run on the streets of Sectors 1 to 30 from Tuesday onwards.
Earlier, the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh 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 the city. Apart from this, 293 more vehicles will be deployed in a phased manner on delivery basis throughout the city to collect segregated waste from households.
During the launch, the Governor said that in order to implement successful door to door collection of waste separately i.e. wet and dry waste, the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has deployed its 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 percent waste segregation in the city.
The Governor also congratulated the Mayor for implementing the system in the city with a detailed route plan to cover all the wards and villages along with colonies. 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 to all the citizens of Chandigarh to give segregated waste in these MCC vehicles for easy and early processing of the garbage at the plant.