The Punjab Government has approved a proposal to establish a Solid Waste Management Authority with the aim of ensuring efficient disposal of waste in urban areas.
In addition, the local Bodies department has been asked to formulate a "Mission 100 Days" plan to complete all ongoing works and also fix future targets.
The decision was made on Friday at a meeting of senior officers of the department of local Bodies, chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.
The Deputy CM also approved division of the State into eight clusters for establishing of integrated solid waste management plants. These plants will now come up at ludhiana, Pathankot, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Bathinda, Patiala, Mohali and Ferozpur. Badal asked the department to involve gram panchayats of adjoining villages willing to bond themselves in the ongoing cleanliness drive by the local bodies department so as to make the villages clean and green.