Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will be starting an Information Education and Communication (IEC) based source segregation campaign. This campaign will be conducted till September 14 and several activities will be carried out during this time.
These activities will include ‘Swachhata Rath’, which is schedule to be flagged off on Monday. Through ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ door to door campaign regarding waste segregation will be encouraged by local councillors, then source segregation activities will be conducted at school level and lastly felicitation of rag pickers will be organised.
According to the information provided by a representative of Ramky company, the awareness campaign will be conducted in the wards with the help of local representatives and company employees. Parallel to this campaign phase wise source segregation of waste implementation will be initiated.
In the first phase that is to start from September 2 to 15, first five wards that are Mata Mandir, Race Course North, Race Course South, Rest Camp and MKP. The second phase will be held from September 16 to 30. The third phase will be held from October 1 to 15. The fourth phase will be held from October 16 to 31. The fifth and the final step will be held from November 1 to 15. This implementation process is designed for 66 wards.
It is pertinent to mention here that in order to take suggestions through an open platform from several stakeholders MCD has conducted meeting in two phases.
In the first phase merchant association, local businessman and non-governmental organisations participated while in the second phase local members of the councillor body were present. Most of the suggestions were to conduct awareness campaigns against polythene usage in order to take support from the citizens.
However, some stakeholders have raised concern on the work plan that MCD is making stating that authorities are not clarifying that what type of polythene and plastic is banned.