Following the High Court order issued on Friday to clear garbage from various public places in Dehradun within 24 hours, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun continued its special sanitation drive in the city on Sunday. In the presence of the District Magistrate and MCD administrator SA Murugesan and municipal commissioner Vijay Kumar Jogdande the sanitation workers cleaned the various parts of the city.
According to the MCD officials, on Sunday a total of about 280 tonnes of garbage was cleared from various localities of the provisional state capital. Thirty trolleys and four dumpers were deployed for transporting the garbage cleared from different areas. In addition to workers, mechanical excavators were also deployed for clearing garbage dumps from the city.
Talking about it municipal commissioner Vijay Kumar Jogdande said, “A special sanitation drive was being undertaken by the corporation in addition to the routine sanitation work.
Along with the sanitation workers deployed in the 60 municipal wards, we have formed eight more teams to clean and collect garbage from various part of the city. Along with this, a number of people were issued challan for littering, spitting in public place and using the banned polythene."
CMSWPL to undertake door to door garbage collection in Doon
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has finally signed an agreement with Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Private Limited (CMSWPL) to start a door to door garbage collection in the city. The company is likely to start working within two months. The collected garbage will be transported to the waste management plant at Shishambada for processing.
Since discontinuation of the services of the company previously undertaking the door to door collection of garbage, problems were being faced in the execution of this task. Former councillors and residents of the city too have complained on more than one occasion about municipal services including the door to door collection of garbage.
Speaking about it the senior city health officer Dr RK Singh said, “The agreement with the company has finally been done. The company will collect garbage under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. The work is most likely to begin within the next couple of months.