South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) will deploy one dedicated tipper in each zone to collect municipal solid waste from quarantined homes. The municipal staff will also be given Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kit to protect them from catching infections.
The decision was taken in a high-level meeting called by SDMC Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti to monitor the situation and take all possible measures to combat coronavirus pandemic which was attended by all the concerned officials. In the meeting, it was decided to implement guidelines for proper collection and disposal of municipal solid waste from quarantined homes, a senior official said.
The Commissioner instructed the concerned officials to provided the list of such homes to concessionaire for making route plan for covering these houses with the direction that all the concessionaire to deploy one-one tipper in every zone to collect municipal solid waste from quarantined homes.
Bharti also applauded the work being carried out by 20000 sanitation workers, 200 doctors, 750 nurses and 1100 dengue breeding checkers (DBC) working relentlessly in field against all odds.
He further said that PPEs which includes sodium hypochlorite solutions, liquid hand soaps, and gloves have been provided to concessionaire so that it can be distributed to the staff engaged for garbage collection for their safety. Apart from these knapsack sprayers has also been arranged for spraying one per cent sodium hypochlorite solution for sanitizing the domestic hazardous waste before receiving for final disposal.
Bharti said that a group of additional commissioners, nodal officer, district health officer, Concessionaire and executive engineer , Department of Environment Management Services (DEMS) has been created for coordination and updating list of quarantined households on daily basis for smooth functioning.
Commissioner said that the nurses and DBC workers are also engaged in surveillance of passengers, who visited Delhi from abroad through door to door survey. The civic body is also chalking out the strategy to train around 400 malis for this surveillance and door to door work, he said, adding that they will be trained to conduct a household survey and prepare a list mentioning the number of patients suffering from Covid19-like symptoms.