Just two more weeks and Quality Council of India (QCI) team will assess Ranchi on different parameters of sanitation challenge comparing it with major cities. The civic body officials that hope to grab better position this year have no alternative plan to check the city residents’ activities that despite knowing about the competition create muddle in their residential areas by dumping waste materials recklessly without even segregating them.
The civic body is yet to deploy Marshalls to keep a check on residents’ activities dumping garbage in their localities that appears to be a major hurdle in competing with 500 odd cities in ‘Swacchta Sarvekshan’ competition and assuring cleanliness before the assessment process formally kicks off. As per the plan of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC), approximately 20 Marshalls were supposed to be appointed at different localities before ‘Swacchta Sarvekshan’ to keep a check on activities of people but the entire process took a back seat due to the delay in tender process.
“There are hurdles in appointing Marshalls at the moment. Although, we have made the tender out for this specific purpose but now it has become difficult to appoint them in the given deadline. Moreover, appointing Marshalls was being done for the long run period to ensure cleanliness all around and not specifically for the ‘Swacchta Sarvekshan’. Before making formal appointments, the percentage amount will be fixed for the Marshalls including the RMC share, it involve long process and will take some time,” said, Deputy Mayor, Sanjiv Vijayawargia.
The team of Quality Council of India (QCI) will visit State Capital for evaluating the city on different parameters on January 20. The three-day review task under QCI team supervision will continue till January 22. Though the officials have claimed that the arrangements like pre-fabricated modular toilets, compost units at vegetable markets, hotels, restaurants, twin dustbins including other essential sanitation arrangements at city is complete and will help in getting better score but the management of solid waste disposal remains the same even now.
Notably, Essel Infra is yet to take up the charge of few more wards for proper management of solid waste disposal. According to Essel Infra officials, they can take the charge of other wards by February end only as resource crunch is posing a big hurdle in taking up the charge of different wards at a time.
With approximately 500 cities participating in the sanitation competition from across the nation, the assessment will be done out of 2000 points, under three important sub sections. For UlB 900 points are set whereas 600 points will be given after receiving the feedback for public while 500 is for direct observers who will monitor the procedure and keep a track of work progress.